Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity In The Network Society

Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media Freaks is the question: Does social media reproduce inequalities or is it a tool for subverting them? Social Media Freaks presents a virtual ethnography of social media, focusing on issues of identity and inequality along five dimensions-race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. It presents original and secondary findings, while also utilizing social theory to explain the dynamics of social media. It teaches readers how to engage social media as a tool for social activism while also examining the limits of social media's value in the quest for social change.

• | Author: Dustin Kidd
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Mar 07, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 286 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 0813350662
• | ISBN-13: 9780813350660