A critical hypertext analysis of social media : the true colours of Facebook / Volker Eisenlauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenlauer, Volker, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Facebook (Electronic resource).

Online social networks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Pub. Plc, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Facebook, in just a few years, has become one of the central tools people use to communicate with each other in everyday life. However, the perceived freedom of action on the site and the actual processes that are permitted in Facebook's set up don't always match up: in this book this gap is examined. This book identifies the interrelations between user text actions and the software environment framing them. It takes a critical perspective on Facebook and develops a model that grants methodological access to complex interlaced practices incorporating media, text and literacies. It shows Facebook users employing idiosyncratic and Facebook-specific literacy practices, and gives weight to the larger hypothesis of the software service as an ideological setting designed to calculate and standardize human behaviour. Specifically, the book examines text action and automation within Facebook to determine how the software service intervenes in the communicative flow between/among profile owners and profile recipients. This is cutting edge work and of huge importance to modern fields of discourse analysis and computer-mediated communication."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Preface

1. Social Media and Social Network Sites

2. Approaching Social Media Critically

3. A Critical Hypertext Analysis of the software service Facebook

4. Facebook's Impact on User Text Actions - A case study

5. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472541857

1472541855

9781441159700

1441159703

9781441105141

144110514X

OCLC:

853455255