How the world changed social media

How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that investigates the findings of anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in communities across the world. This book offers a comparative analysis summarising the results of the research and explores the impac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Daniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London UCL Press 2016, 2016
Series:Why we post
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • What is social media?
  • Academic studies of social media
  • Our method and approach
  • Our survey results
  • Education and young people
  • Work and commerce
  • Online and offline relationships
  • Gender
  • Inequality
  • Politics
  • Visual images
  • Individualism
  • Does social media make people happier?
  • The future
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-252) and index