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

Author/creator Marwick, Alice Emily author.
Format Book
PublicationNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Descriptionviii, 360 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013017042
ISBN9780300176728 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN0300176724 (cloth : alkaline paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks TK5105.88817 .M36 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold