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Social Media A Critical Introduction -
Christian Fuchs : Williams, Marcuse, and Smythe in the Age of Social Media
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Now more than ever, we need to understand social media – the good as well as the bad. We need critical knowledge that helps us to navigate the controversies and contradictions of this complex digital media landscape. Only then can we make informed judgements about what's happening in our media world, and why.
Showing the reader how to ask the right kinds of questions about social media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across social media, delving deep into case studies on Google, Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. The result lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape.
This book is the essential, critical guide for all students of media studies and sociology. Readers will never look at social media the same way again.
Product Details
- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd; 1 edition (December 27, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1446257312
- ISBN-13: 978-1446257319
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.8 x 9.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Customer Reviews
Contrived Marxist "Explanation" of Social Media; Don’t Waste Your Money
Contrived, pseudo-academic, sophomoric Red Square peg in a red white and blue hole. Only of interest to undergrad budding socialists. Has no value to anyone seeking discussion of global Social Media. OTOH, it might be recommended –in an electronic version– to those communist countries where it might be tolerated….if they had free access to the Web.
Marx and social media
A very useful Marxist perspective on social media, highly critical of both Henry Jenkins and Manuel Castells, that reminds us that we must never forget ownership, power relations and possible exploitation of users whose digital footsteps are sold to the advertisers. I use this as one of several books on my undergraduate course in Media and Communication Studies entitled “Information and Communication Theory”.
Best all-around introduction to social media as a field of …
4 people found this helpful.
Best all-around introduction to social media as a field of research and a social realm, excellent introduction to critical theory as well. However (and perhaps not the best thing to say about a book that takes a critical theory stand) I found it a bit too…critical- by which I mean lacking some nuances. Sure, surveillance, ownership and control of social media are essential questions and should not be ignored, but Fuchs pretty much throws to the ground any other existing approach to the study of social media (Castells, Jenkins etc). While it is the point of critical theory to fight ideologies and idealistic theories of society, in dismissing other approaches this book just becomes over-zealous in trying to install another ideology.
Five Stars
Love this book
Four Stars
Son found book to be useful.
An excellent book for gaining a better understanding of Social Media
An excellent book for gaining a better understanding of Social Media. The book is well researched and examines each topic with care.
A different point-of-view
6 people found this helpful.
Although I, personally, disagree with much of Prof. Fuchs’ postulations, this text is a necessary balance to the current social media obsession. My students were surprised at the level of corporate infiltration in, what they perceive as, a totally populist forum. Fuchs’ perspective provides a much-needed NEGATIVE perspective to the uses of social media. While there have been many journal articles written by psychologists on the negative impact of social media’s “isolation” and compulsive use, this is the only source I have seen that looks at the negative STRUCTURE of social media. TED talks abound re the capitalistic uses of social media and its economic potential — and I’m all for that. However, we must also take a look at the “man behind the curtain” to have a well-rounded sense of social media’s structure.
Well Written and Thought Out
5 people found this helpful.
This book really goes into depth into the pervasiveness of social media in society today. The book takes a bit of an academic approach to the topic, but for me this opened my eyes to so much more than just the user experience. The book takes you in deep and lets you really digest what is really happening in social media, and let me tell you, it is much deeper than you would originally think.
