Christian Fuchs. 2024. Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London:
Sage. Fourth edition. 448 pages.
More info on the English edition (how to order a review or inspection
copy, etc.):
https://fuchsc.net/books/social-media-a-critical-introduction-4th-edition/
German edition:
https://fuchsc.net/books/soziale-medien-und-kritische-theorie-2/
Published in December 2024, the fourth edition of Christian Fuchs’
textbook “Social Media: A Critical Introduction” gives an introduction
to the use of Critical Theory for the analysis of the Internet and
social media in society.
Contents
I. FOUNDATIONS
1. Social Media: A Critical Introduction
2. What are Social Media?
3. Big Data in Digital Capitalism
4. The Power and Political Economy of Social Media
II. PLATFORMS
5. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?
6. Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News
7. Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of TikTok,
Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat
8. Elon Musk’s Twitter and the Colonisation of Political Communication
on Twitter: Political Economy, Digital Democracy, and the (Digital)
Public Sphere
9. Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Digital Fascism on Social Media
10. TikTok and China’s Political Economy in Global Capitalism
III. FUTURES
11. Towards Truly Social Media
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