A sleepwalker's guide to social media /
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Author / Creator: | Sampson, Tony D., author. |
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Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2020. |
Description: | 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12452568 |
ISBN: | 9781509537402 1509537406 9781509537419 1509537414 9781509537426 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary: | Positing online users as 'sleepwalkers', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produce subjectivities. Drawing on a wide range of theorists, including A.N. Whitehead and Gabriel Tarde, he provides tools to track his sleepwalker through the 'dark refrain of social media': a refrain that spreads through viral platform architectures with a staccato-like repetition of shock events, rumours, conspiracy, misinformation, big lies, search engine weaponization, data voids, populist strongmen, immune system failures, and far-right hate speech. Sampson's sleepwalker is not a pre-programmed smartphone junkie, but a conceptual personae intended to dodge capture by data doubles and lookalikes. Sleepwalkers are neither asleep nor wide awake; they are a liminal experimentation in collective mimicry and self-other relationality. Their purpose is to stir up a new kind of community that emerges from the potentialities of revolutionary contagion. At a time in which social media is influencing more people than ever, A Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media is an important reference for students and scholars of media theory, digital media and social media. -- Provided by publisher. "A leading scholar's cutting-edge analysis of the power and impact of social media and its users"-- |
Other form: | Online version: Sampson, Tony D., A sleepwalker's guide to social media Medford : Polity, 2020 9781509537426 |
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