Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond

by Mark Wheeler and Petros Iosifidis

Book Overview

Social media is said to radically change the way in which public communication takes place: information diffuses faster and can reach a large number of people, but what makes the process so novel is that online networks can empower people to compete with traditional broadcasters or public figures. This book critically interrogates the contemporary relevance of social networks as a set of economic, cultural and political enterprises and as a public...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137410299
• ISBN13: 9781137410290
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 297 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"