The Social Media Debate

This accessible, student-friendly book provides a concise overview of the primary debates surrounding the impact and effects of social media.

Autorentext

Devan Rosen is Professor of Emerging Media in the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. His research focuses on the social uses of new media, social network analysis, and distributed socio-technical systems. He has developed social and semantic network-analytic theories and methods for the analysis of dynamic social networks in online environments. His research on decentralized self-organizing systems, Flock Theory, has been featured as the basis for several episodes of the hit CBS show NUMB3RS.

Inhalt

1 Introduction: The Rise of a New Media Paradigm 2. Social Media as Social Infrastructures 3. Contemporary Social Capital: Relationships Versus Awareness 4. Don't be Antisocial: The Politics of the "Anti-Social" in "Social" Media 5. Social Media, Alienation, and the Public Sphere 6. Social Media Content Moderation: The Best-Kept Secret in Tech 7. Make it Trend! Setting Right Wing Media Agendas Using Twitter Hashtags 8. Mis/Disinformation and Social Media 9. Locating Social Media in Black Digital Studies 10. An Overview of Social Media and Mental Health 11. Child and Adolescent Social Media use and Mental Health: A Personal Social Media use Framework 12. There is No Easy Answer: How the Interaction of Content, Situation, and Person Shapes the Effect of Social Media use on Well-being 13. What Does God Need With a Starship?: A Conversation about Politics, Participation, and Social Media 14. Conclusions: Together We Ascend