DIGITAL MEDIA & SOCIETY

• Main Author: Lindgren, Simon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: California Thousand Oaks, California Sage Publications Limited 2022
• Edition: 2ND EDITION
• Subjects: Digital media > Social aspects; Information Society; Internet > Social aspects; Internet > Aspects Social
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What does it mean to live in a digital society? Does social media empower political activism? How do we form and express our identity in a digital age? Do algorithms and search engine results have a social role? How have software and hardware transformed how we interact with each other? In the early...

Table of Contents:

• Digital society
• Social media platforms
• Beyond optimism and pessimism
• Interaction and identity
• Communities and networks
• Visuality and visibility
• Emotions and affect
• Power and exploitation
• Activism and mobilisation
• Datafication and algorithms
• Software and devices
• Researching digital society
• Epilogue: Digital media and social change