The Public Space of Social Media: Connected Cultures of the Network Society

by Therese Tierney

Book Overview

Social media is restructuring urban practices-through ad-hoc experimentation, commercial software development, and communities of participation. This book is the first to consider how practices contained within social media are situated within a larger genealogy of public space, including theories of communal identity, civitas and democracy, the fete, and self-expression. Through empirical research, the actual social practices of participants of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138649309
• ISBN13: 9781138649309
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"