Digital Media and Society #: Facebook

Digital Media and Society #: Facebook
Taina Bucher
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21 May 2021 UK
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9781509535170
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Facebook has fundamentally changed how the world connects. No other company has played a greater role in the history of social networking online. Yet Facebook is no longer simply a social networking site or social media platform. Facebook is Facebook. Taina Bucher shows how Facebook has become an idea of its own: something that cannot be fully described using broader categories. Facebook has become so commonplace that most people have a conception of what it is, yet it increasingly defies categorization. If we want to understand Facebook' s power in contemporary society and culture, Bucher argues, we need to start by challenging our widespread conception of what Facebook is. Tracing the development and evolution of Facebook as a social networking site, platform, infrastructure and advertising company, she invites readers to consider Facebook anew. Contrary to the belief that nobody uses Facebook anymore, Facebook has never been more powerful. This timely book is important reading for students and scholars of media and communication, as well as anyone seeking to understand the Facebook phenomenon.

Apps: From Mobile Phones to Digital Lives
Blogging
Bots
Computer Games and the Social Imaginary
Digital Labor
Digital Media Ethics
Facebook
Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures
Internet of Things, The
Music Industry, The: Music in the Cloud
Radio in the Digital Age
Regulating Platforms
Search Engine Society
Tumblr
Twitter
Ubiquitous Photography
Wi-Fi
YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture

' Taina Bucher has authored the best book to date in the rapidly growing literature on Facebook. It has rigorous analysis, theoretical nuance and sweeping empirical scope. It sets the standard for accounts of the platform and should be required reading for researchers and journalists grappling with what Facebook means for political, social and cultural life around the world. ' Daniel Kreiss, University of North Carolina' Taina Bucher is one of the best analysts of social media platforms we' ve got. Here, she insightfully focuses on Facebook from many complementary angles that together reveal how it has become an ever-present infrastructure in the feel of daily life, shaping our social and political worlds, whether we use it or not. ' Nancy Baym, Microsoft Research
Taina Bucher is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781509535170
Published: 21 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Polity Press
Publisher: Polity Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 209mm
Width: 152mm
Spine: 21mm
Weight: 368g
Pages: 288

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