Social Media Reader: Out Now!
1 May, 2012 - 23:12 by felixIt took a while, but now the Social Media Reader, a great collection of essays on the culture and politics of social media, edited by Michael Mandiberg, is now out from New York University Press.
From the backcover of the book:
With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field. Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers,