Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age - Rilegato

Marwick, Alice E.

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ISBN 10: 0300176724 ISBN 13: 9780300176728

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, “Web 2.0” only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research—which includes conversations with entrepreneurs, Internet celebrities, and Silicon Valley journalists—explores the culture and ideology of San Francisco’s tech community in the period between the dot com boom and the App store, when the city was the world’s center of social media development.   Marwick argues that early revolutionary goals have failed to materialize: while many continue to view social media as democratic, these technologies instead turn users into marketers and self-promoters, and leave technology companies poised to violate privacy and to prioritize profits over participation. Marwick analyzes status-building techniques—such as self-branding, micro-celebrity, and life-streaming—to show that Web 2.0 did not provide a cultural revolution, but only furthered inequality and reinforced traditional social stratification, demarcated by race, class, and gender.

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L'autore:

Alice E. Marwick is assistant professor, communication and media studies, Fordham University, and the director of the Donald McGannon Communication Research Center. She lives in New York City.

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300176724
• ISBN 13: 9780300176728
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 360