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The Culture of Connectivity
José Van Dijck
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Description for The Culture of Connectivity
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 b/w figure. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD; KNTX1; UDBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 388.
Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, 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. Such history is needed to understand how these media have come to profoundly affect our experience of online sociality. The first stage of their development shows a ... Read more
Social media has come to deeply penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define many of our daily habits of communication and creative production. The Culture of Connectivity studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up until 2012, 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. Such history is needed to understand how these media have come to profoundly affect our experience of online sociality. The first stage of their development shows a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
377g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199970780
SKU
V9780199970780
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99-74
About José Van Dijck
José van Dijck is a professor of Comparative Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she also served as the Dean of Humanities. She has a PhD from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and previously taught at the Universities of Groningen and Maastricht. Her work covers a wide range of topics in media theory, media technologies, social ... Read more
Reviews for The Culture of Connectivity
The Culture of Connectivity perhaps stands out most for the ways it attends to microhistorical changes that are often difficult to track given our increasing embeddedness in social media networks and their frequent multilevel updates.
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