Social Media: A Critical Introduction by Christian Fuchs Paperback Book

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This book is the ultimate guide for digging deeper into issues of ownership, power, class, and (in)justice, equipping you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media's relationship with society.

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You will never look at social media the same way again. Social media are an integral part of contemporary society. From news, warfare, politics, advertising, consumption, entertainment, friendships, labour, and economy to friendships, leisure, language, and everyday life, they have changed the way we communicate, use information and understand the world. Social media shape and are shaped by contemporary society. In order to understand contemporary society we have to ask critical questions about social media. This book is the ultimate guide for digging deeper into issues of ownership, power, class, and (in)justice. This book equips you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media's relationship with society. The Fourth Edition contains new chapters and has updated and revised versions of other chapters:? The book includes a new chapter on TikTok in the context of global capitalism and the geopolitical conflict between China and the USA.? It explores new topics such as information and social media warfare in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the implications of Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter for democracy and the public sphere, the prospects of Twitter-alternative Mastodon, digital fascism, influencers and the attention economy on TikTok, digital capitalism, the role of big data in digital capitalism, The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto, social media's digital alienation, and Putinism and information warfare. ? It explores populism, racism, nationalism, militant patriarchy in a chapter on right-wing authoritarianism on social media that includes two case studies of Donald Trump and Putinism.? It analyses the phenomenon of social media influencers in the age of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat.? It explains in an updated chapter what digital capitalism is and what role big data plays in it.? It explores the growing prominence of platforms and platform capitalism.? It analyses fake news, misinformation, and surveillance capitalism in the context of Facebook, WhatsApp, Cambridge Analytica, and the Internet Research Agency.? It shows why Google is simultaneously the Internet's God and Satan. ? It discusses digital democracy and the digital public sphere in the context of Twitter.? It challenges you to envision and achieve a truly social media that serves the purposes of a just and fair world.? It introduces platform co-operatives and the Public Service Internet. There are winners and losers in the age of digital capitalism. This book is an essential guide for anyone who wants to critically understand how we got to digital capitalism and capitalist social media, what we can do about it, and what a democratic public sphere looks like.

Author Biography

Christian Fuchs is Professor at the University of Westminster, where he is the Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and the Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute. His research fields are critical theory, critical media/communication studies, critical digital studies.Fuchs is a critical theorist of communication and digital media. He is the author of many works about the roles of media, communcation, and the Internet in society.His books include "Marxist Humanism & Communication Theory" (2021), "Communication and Captalism: A Critical Theory" (2020), "Marxism: Karl Marx′s Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural & Communication Studies"(2020), "Nationalism on the Internet" (2020), "Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism" (2019), "Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter" (2018), "Critical Theory of Communication" (2016), "Reading Marx in the Information Age" (2016), "Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media" (2015), "OccupyMedia!"(2014), "Digital Labour and Karl Marx" (2014), "Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies" (2011), "Internet and Society" (2008).@fuchschristian,

Table of Contents

I. FOUNDATIONS1. Social Media: A Critical Introduction2. What are Social Media?3. Big Data in Digital Capitalism4. The Power and Political Economy of Social MediaII. PLATFORMS5. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?6. Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News7. Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat8. Elon Musk's Twitter and the Colonisation of Political Communication on Twitter: Political Economy, Digital Democracy, and the (Digital) Public Sphere9. Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Digital Fascism on Social Media10. TikTok and China's Political Economy in Global CapitalismIII. FUTURES11. Towards Truly Social Media

Review

Fuchs continues to prove the enduring legacy of Marxist theory in a digital age, demonstrating its potential to help us understand social and technological relations and ways to foster a more just society beyond the shackles of techno-capitalist structures of power. -- Dr Aliette Lambert

Details ISBN1529685001 Author Christian Fuchs Pages 448 Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Edition Description 4th Revised edition Year 2024 Edition 4th ISBN-13 9781529685008 Format Paperback Imprint Sage Publications Ltd Subtitle A Critical Introduction Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Replaces 9781529752748 Alternative 9781529684995 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education ISBN-10 1529685001 AU Release Date 2024-12-13 Publication Date 2024-11-22 UK Release Date 2024-11-22 We've got this

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