Status update : celebrity, publicity, and branding in the social media age / Alice E. Marwick.
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- 0300176724
- 9780300176728
- 9780300176728:
- 658.872
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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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