Twitter and Society
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Reviews
«This collection of important work – featuring both well-known and emerging scholars from diverse disciplines – helps contextualize Twitter as a sociotechnical phenomenon. It will serve as a crucial foundation for new research while also offering useful perspectives for educators helping students to understand social media. By going beyond naïve stereotypes and revealing the complex practices and diverse users that help define Twitter, this book provides rich insights into the importance of social media in contemporary life.»
(Danah Boyd, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University)
«Talk of Big Data is everywhere, as contributors to this book rightly note. This timely collection, bringing together noted scholars and academics who work in the area, offers important insight into Big Data through a focus on the most important real-time stream message bus today, namely Twitter. Covering key aspects of Twitter social use and practices, Twitter and Society is a key text for providing empirical and methodological reflection on a fast-moving and important area of research.»
(David M. Berry, Reader in Media & Communication and Co-Director of the Centre for Material Digital Culture at Sussex University)
Author Biography
Dr. Katrin Weller is an information scientist working at GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany. She is author of Knowledge Representation in the Social Semantic Web (2010) and co-author of a monthly column on social media trends for Password, a German journal for information professionals. Dr. Axel Bruns is an Associate Professor in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. He is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008). Dr. Jean Burgess is Associate Professor of Digital Media and Director of Research Training in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She is the author of Studying Mobile Media: Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone (2012). Dr. Merja Mahrt is a media
Copyright Information
Copyright year 2014
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
- Publish Date November 2013
- LanguageEnglish
- Number 9781433121692
- Publication CountryUnited States
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 42.95 USD
- ReadershipProfessional and scholarly
- Publish StatePublished
- Copyright Year2014
- Dimensions225 X 150 mm
- SeriesDigital Formations
- Reference Code9781433121692
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