Facebook Society: Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves

by Roberto Simanowski

Facebook claims that it is building a "global community." Whether this sounds utopian, dystopian, or simply self-promotional, there is no denying that social-media platforms have altered social interaction, political life, and outlooks on the world, even for people who do not regularly use them. In this book, Roberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society--and its insidious consequences for our concept...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231182724
• ISBN13: 9780231182720
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.7"