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Status update : celebrity, publicity, and branding in the social media age / Alice E. Marwick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]Description: viii, 360 pages ; 25 cm. ; casedISBN:
  • 0300176724
  • 9780300176728
  • 9780300176728:
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.872
Contents:
Introduction -- A Cultural History of Web 2.0 -- Leaders and Followers : Status in the Tech Scene -- Fabulous Lives of Micro-Celebrities -- Self-Branding : The (Safe for Work) Self -- Lifestreaming: We Live in Public -- Designed in California: Entrepreneurship and the Myths of Web 2.0 -- Conclusion.
Summary: Presents an analysis of social media, discussing how a technology which was once heralded as democratic, has evolved into one which promotes elitism and inequality and provides companies with the means of invading privacy in search of profits.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 658.872 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Checked out 08/01/2018 74870

CW808

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- A Cultural History of Web 2.0 -- Leaders and Followers : Status in the Tech Scene -- Fabulous Lives of Micro-Celebrities -- Self-Branding : The (Safe for Work) Self -- Lifestreaming: We Live in Public -- Designed in California: Entrepreneurship and the Myths of Web 2.0 -- Conclusion.

Presents an analysis of social media, discussing how a technology which was once heralded as democratic, has evolved into one which promotes elitism and inequality and provides companies with the means of invading privacy in search of profits.

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