Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media

by Christian Fuchs

Book Overview

Understanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to analyse how social media companies try to make profits, how and which labour creates this profit, who creates social media ideologies, and the conditions under which such ideologies emerge. In short, understanding social media means coming to grips with the relationship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138839310
• ISBN13: 9781138839311
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"