The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

by José van Dijck

Book Overview

Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author Jos van Dijck offers an analytical prism that can be used to view techno-cultural as well as socio-economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199970785
• ISBN13: 9780199970780
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"