Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture, and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism

by Robert W. Gehl

Robert Gehl's timely critique, Reverse Engineering Social Media, rigorously analyzes the ideas of social media and software engineers, using these ideas to find contradictions and fissures beneath the surfaces of glossy sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

Gehl adeptly uses a mix of software studies, science and technology studies, and political economy to reveal the histories and contexts of these social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439910359
• ISBN13: 9781439910351
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"