The Culture of Connectivity A Critical History of Social Media |
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| Author:
| van Dijck, José |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-997077-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $135.00 |
Book Description:
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The Culture of Connectivity tells the full story of the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up to the present, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author and media scholar José van Dijck offers a newanalytical prism to examine techno-cultural as well as socio-economic aspects of this transformation, looking especially at major...
More DescriptionThe Culture of Connectivity tells the full story of the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up to the present, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author and media scholar José van Dijck offers a newanalytical prism to examine techno-cultural as well as socio-economic aspects of this transformation, looking especially at major platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia.