Sharing Our Lives Online

Why do we share so much about our lives on social media when we often have little idea who might be reading or viewing? David R. Brake examines the causes and consequences of moving towards a radically open society.

This is the first book to address the implications of the emergence of social media for society and to integrate its analysis with broader social theory, but ground its conclusions on fresh empirical evidence and on a focused review of relevant empirical studies It covers the emerging phenomenon of web '2.0' or the 'social web' to focus on the range of factors encouraging writing practices that risk harming both the authors' interpersonal relationships and their employment prospects Draws on new empirical research to reveal the ways in which individuals' understandings and expectations of online social interation can also encourage risky online behaviour It also offers practical guidance for educators, policy-makers, parents and students to reduce some of these dangers and outlines new avenues for online media research

Autorentext
David R. Brake (http://davidbrake.org/) is a communication scholar and pioneering web journalist who has been using and studying the internet for more than a quarter of a century.

Inhalt
Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. What is Risky and Who is at Risk? 3. How and Why Social Media Interaction is Different 4. Imagining the Reader 5. Time and Memory in Social Media 6. Towards a Radically Open Society 7. Conclusion Bibliography