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Social media and democracy : the state of the field, prospects for reform
Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disciplines and corners of academia. This book is the first of its kind to take stock of this emerging multi-disciplinary field by synthesizing what we know, identifying what we do not know and obstacles to future research, and charting a course for the …
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- 9781108890960
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- xvii, 345p. : ill.
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- 302.231 SOC s
Where truth lies : digital culture and documentary media after 9/11
"This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the emergence of several key media forms—social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and virtual environments, big data and data visualization—and demonstrates the formative influence of po…
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- 9780520972117
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- XVI, 228 p.
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- 302.2310973 FAL w
#Identity : hashtagging race, gender, sexuality, and nation
"Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-underrepresented perspectives, and form community. It has also spread hashtags that have been used to bully and …
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- 9780472074150
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- xi, 365p. : ill.
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- 302.30285 HAS h
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