Social media freaks : digital identity in the network society / Dustin Kidd.

Boulder : Westview Press, [2017]

©2017

xi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

English

May 16, 2017

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.