A Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media - Couverture rigide

Sampson, Tony D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1509537406 ISBN 13 : 9781509537402

Editeur : Polity Press, 2020

Synopsis

Positing online users as 'sleepwalkers', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produce subjectivities.

Drawing on a wide range of theorists, including A.N. Whitehead and Gabriel Tarde, he provides tools to track his sleepwalker through the 'dark refrain of social media': a refrain that spreads through viral platform architectures with a staccato-like repetition of shock events, rumours, conspiracy, misinformation, big lies, search engine weaponization, data voids, populist strongmen, immune system failures, and far-right hate speech. Sampson's sleepwalker is not a pre-programmed smartphone junkie, but a conceptual personae intended to dodge capture by data doubles and lookalikes. Sleepwalkers are neither asleep nor wide awake; they are a liminal experimentation in collective mimicry and self-other relationality. Their purpose is to stir up a new kind of community that emerges from the potentialities of revolutionary contagion.

At a time in which social media is influencing more people than ever, A Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media is an important reference for students and scholars of media theory, digital media and social media.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Tony D. Sampson is Reader in Digital Media Culture and Communication at the University of East London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1509537406
• ISBN 13: 9781509537402
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
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