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Social Media: A Critical Introduction
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Showing the reader how to ask the right kinds of questions about social media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across social media, delving deep into case studies on Google, Facebook, WikiLeaks and Twitter. The result lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape. This book is the essential, critical guide for all students of media studies and sociology
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“Dallas Smythe's Marxist political economy of the media and communication has in this context been revived and further developed (for an overview see: Fuchs 2012a, 2014).”
From What Is Digital Labour? What Is Digital Work? What's their Difference? And Why Do These Questions Matter for Understanding Social Media? (2013) · cites this paper as Fuchs 2014
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“The reality of ICTs today is enabled by the existence of a plenitude of exploited labour, such as the slave-labour of people of colour in Africa who extract minerals, out of which ICT hardware is produced, the highly exploited labour of industrial workers in China and other countries that assembles hardware tools, precarious call centre work, dangerous eWaste labour in developing countries, etc”
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“Según los resultados del estudio, WhatsApp e Instagram concentran la mayoría de la atención, lo que refuerza el poder de agencia de determinados nodos de internet ( Fuchs , 2014), como paradoja al imaginario utopista o efecto placebo ( Giraldo-Luque , 2015) en el que se cree que todos tienen la misma posibilidad de captación de la atención en la Red.”
From Redes sociales y consumo digital en jóvenes universitarios: economía de la atención y oligopolios de la comunicación en el siglo XXI (2020) · cites this paper as Fuchs, 2014
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- Authors
- Fuchs, C.
- Corresponding author
- Fuchs, Christian
- ORCID
- Fuchs, Christian
- Venue
- SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Published
- 2014
- OpenAlex
- W1599568072
- Cited by
- 1,311
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 56 · 2025: 75 · 2024: 62 · 2023: 101 · 2022: 92 · 2021: 121 · 2020: 152 · 2019: 139 · 2018: 133 · 2017: 123 · 2016: 125 · 2015: 91 · 2014: 36
- FWCI
- 91.42
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks (publishedVersion)
- WestminsterResearch (University of Westminster) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Media and Digital Communication
- Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
- Social Sciences › Communication › Cultural Studies and Postmodernism
- Keywords
- social media, power relations, media structure, Google, Facebook, WikiLeaks, Twitter, media landscape, critical media studies
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