The Social Media Handbook explores how social media are changing disciplinary understandings of the internet and our everyday lives. In addition to person-to-person social networking services like Facebook and Twitter, this volume considers a broad range of networked information services that support in-depth social interaction, community formation, and collaboration in the Web 2.0 era.
Rather than considering social media in terms of specific technologies, the chapters in this book engage topics across a range of research, techniques, practices, culture and society, and theories. These broader topics-including community, gender, fandom, disability, and journalism-are entryways through which students and faculty can explore ways of thinking about social media and find new paradigms for analysis.
Contributors: Axel Bruns, Francesca Coppa, Katie Ellis, Gerard Goggin, Alexander Halavais, Andrew Herman, Jeremy Hunsinger, Angus Johnston, Alice Marwick, Safiya Umoja Noble, Zizi Papacharissi, Toni Sant, Theresa Senft
About the Author:
Jeremy Hunsinger is an Assistant Professor in Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He is co-editor of the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments and the International Handbook of Internet Research.
Theresa Senft is the author of Camgirls: Celebrity & Community in the Age of Social Networks and the co-author of History of the Internet: A Chronology, 1843-Present. Formerly a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London, Terri now teaches in the Global Liberal Studies Program at New York University.
