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100 1 |a Schroeder, Ralph 
245 0 0 |a Social Theory after the Internet  |h Elektronische Ressource  |b Media, Technology and Globalization 
260 |a London  |b UCL Press  |c 2018 
300 |a 1 electronic resource (210 p.) 
653 |a Social media 
653 |a globalization 
653 |a thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory 
653 |a internet 
653 |a Populism 
653 |a thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies 
653 |a culture 
653 |a technology 
653 |a Facebook 
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653 |a United States 
653 |a big data 
653 |a China 
653 |a media & communications 
653 |a India 
653 |a thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology 
653 |a Sweden 
653 |a thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences 
653 |a Google 
653 |a media 
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653 |a world wide web 
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520 |a The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.