Description
Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media Freaks is the question: Does social media reproduce inequalities or is it a tool for subverting them?
Social Media Freaks presents a virtual ethnography of social media, focusing on issues of identity and inequality along five dimensions-race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. It presents original and secondary findings, while also utilizing social theory to explain the dynamics of social media. It teaches readers how to engage social media as a tool for social activism while also examining the limits of social media's value in the quest for social change.
Author: Dustin Kidd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/07/2017
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780813350660
ISBN10: 0813350662
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Media Studies
- Computers | Internet | Social Media
- Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity
About the Author
Dustin Kidd is Associate Professor of Sociology at Temple University in Philadelphia. Kidd is the author of two previous books: Legislating Creativity: The Intersections of Art & Politics and Pop Culture Freaks: Identity, Mass Media, and Society. He has also published articles and essays in The Hedgehog Review, AfterImage, Research in Political Sociology, The Journal of Popular Culture, Contexts, Sociology Compass, and The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society.
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