How to Use the Most Popular Platforms and Protect Your Privacy
This book helps those who want to use social media but are not necessarily Web-savvy navigate the most popular networking sites available. Privacy and technical information about how social media platforms function are explained, so everyone can make informed decisions about how to connect online.
What does "IRL" really mean in the digital age? Every day, the lines between digital and real space blur even further. "A must-read" (Buzzfeed Books), IRL invites us to consider how the online spaces we use might fulfill our essential human need to feel real.
Have you listened to your younger relatives and wonder
what they're talking about when they mention Facebook or
Twitter and talk about Skyping someone? Social networking
is increasingly referred to in the media with
expectations that everyone knows what it's all about.
This book explores these issues and demystifies the
jargon so that you ......
Finding Realness, Meaning, and Belonging in Our Digital Lives
It's easy to view our online presence as fake, to see the internet as a space we enter when we aren't living our real, offline lives. IRL, Chris Stedman's insightful exploration of authenticity in the digital age, shines a light on how age-old notions of realness can be freshly understood in our online lives.
What happens when screen time is all the time? In the early 1990s, the phrase "screen time" emerged to scare parents about the dangers of too much TV for kids. Screen time was something to fret over, police, and judge in a low-grade moral panic. Now, "screen time" has become a metric not only for good parenting, but for our adult lives as well. ......
An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment
Explores new perspectives on social media entertainment. There is a new class of cultural producers-YouTube vloggers, Twitch gameplayers, Instagram influencers, TikTokers, Chinese wanghong, and others-who are part of a rapidly emerging and highly disruptive industry of monetized "user-generated" content.
An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment
"Creator Culture introduces readers to "ways of seeing" social media entertainment from perspectives that critically assess claims for its relation to, yet differentiation from, well-established media forms and institutions within scope for cultural and media studies, including emerging platform and social media studies"--
All the Pointless Trivia You Never Knew about Twitter
In under five years Twitter has become almost as popular as TV, with close to 20 million Brits of all age groups using. But what actually happens on Twitter?! This amusing book gathers for the first time all the facts and trivia about this new media friend in our home and on our phone. Did you know that it might have been called 'Friendstalker' or ......