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“alice e marwick”

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  • Status Update

    Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age

    by Alice E. Marwick ...
    Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research—which includes conversations with entrepreneurs, Internet celebrities, and Silicon Valley journalists—explores the culture and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Private Is Political

    Networked Privacy and Social Media

    by Alice E. Marwick ...
    A compelling firsthand investigation of how social media and big data have amplified the close relationship between privacy and inequalityOnline privacy is under constant attack by social media and big data technologies. But we cannot rely on individual actions to remedy this—it is a matter of social justice. Alice E. Marwick offers a new way of understanding how privacy is jeopardized, ... Read more

    $23.39 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of Social Media

    Edited by Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell, Alice E. Marwick ...
    The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships.This international Handbook addresses the most ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

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  • Networked

    The New Social Operating System

    by Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman ...
    How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming—and expanding—social life.Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Emerging Media

    Information, Social Norms, and New Media Technology

    Edited by PhD Bruce E. Drushel, PhD Kathleen German ...
    The Ethics of Emerging Media engages with enduring ethical questions while addressing critical questions concerning ethical boundaries at the forefront of new media development. This collection provides a rare opportunity to ask how emerging media affect the ethical choices in our lives and the lives of people across the globe.Centering on different new media forms from eBay to Wikipedia, each ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • Understanding New Media

    by Eugenia Siapera ...
    The new media landscape touches every aspect of our social, political and cultural lives. It is more important than ever, therefore, that we are able to understand and explain the complexity of our digital world.Understanding New Media gives students the tools and the knowledge they need to make sense of the relationship between technologies, media and society. This best-selling student ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • The War on Learning

    Gaining Ground in the Digital University

    by Elizabeth Losh ...
    An examination of technology-based education initiatives—from MOOCs to virtual worlds—that argues against treating education as a product rather than a process.Behind the lectern stands the professor, deploying course management systems, online quizzes, wireless clickers, PowerPoint slides, podcasts, and plagiarism-detection software. In the seats are the students, armed with smartphones, laptops, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Two Revolutions

    A History of the Transgender Internet

    by Avery Dame-Griff ...
    Series series Queer / Trans / Digital
    Winner of the 2023 Ángel David Nieves Book Award, given by the American Studies AssociationThe internet origins of the American transgender movementThe Two Revolutions explores how the rise of the internet shaped transgender identity and activism from the 1980s to the present. Through extensive archival research and media archeology, Avery Dame-Griff reconstructs the manifold digital networks of ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Thanks for Watching

    An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube

    by Patricia G. Lange ...
    YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. In her award winning book, Thanks for Watching, Patricia G. Lange offers an anthropological perspective on this heavily mediated social environment by analyzing videos and the emotions that motivate sharing them. She demonstrates how core concepts from anthropology—participant-observation, ... Read more

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  • Race After Technology

    Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

    by Ruha Benjamin ...
    From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity.Benjamin argues that automation, far from being a sinister story of racist programmers scheming on the dark web, has the potential to hide, speed up, and deepen discrimination while appearing neutral and even ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

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  • Brotopia

    Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley

    by Emily Chang ...
    **Instant National Bestseller"Excellent." --San Francisco Chronicle"Brotopia is more than a business book. Silicon Valley holds extraordinary power over our present lives as well as whatever utopia (or nightmare) might come next." --New York TimesSilicon Valley is a modern utopia where anyone can change the world. Unless you're a woman.**For women in tech, Silicon Valley is not a fantasyland of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Algorithms of Oppression

    How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

    by Safiya Umoja Noble ...
    A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why ... Read more

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