The Culture of Connectivity by Jose Dijck
The Culture of Connectivity tells the full story of the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century up to the present, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, and Wikipedia.
The Culture of Connectivity perhaps stands out most for the ways it attends to microhistorical changes that are often difficult to track given our increasing embeddedness in social media networks and their frequent multilevel updates* Critical Inquiry *
José van Dijck is a professor of Comparative Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she also served as the Dean of Humanities. She has a PhD from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and previously taught at the Universities of Groningen and Maastricht. Her work covers a wide range of topics in media theory, media technologies, social media, television and culture. She is the author of five books, three co-edited volumes and many journal articles.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199970780 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199970785 |
| Title | The Culture of Connectivity |
| Author | Jose Dijck |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2013-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
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