A Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5095-3741-9
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 341 g

Positing online users as 'sleepwalkers', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produce subjectivities.

Drawing on a wide range of theorists, including A.N. Whitehead and Gabriel Tarde, he provides tools to track his sleepwalker through the 'dark refrain of social media': a refrain that spreads through viral platform architectures with a staccato-like repetition of shock events, rumours, conspiracy, misinformation, big lies, search engine weaponization, data voids, populist strongmen, immune system failures, and far-right hate speech. Sampson's sleepwalker is not a pre-programmed smartphone junkie, but a conceptual personae intended to dodge capture by data doubles and lookalikes. Sleepwalkers are neither asleep nor wide awake; they are a liminal experimentation in collective mimicry and self-other relationality. Their purpose is to stir up a new kind of community that emerges from the potentialities of revolutionary contagion. 

At a time in which social media is influencing more people than ever, A Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media is an important reference for students and scholars of media theory, digital media and social media.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sampson, Tony D.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Soziale Netzwerke

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Intro
Chapter One: Feeling Facts and Fakes
Chapter Two: On the Viral Spectra of Somnambulism
Coda: Christchurch; El Paso
Chapter Three: The Virality of Experience Capitalism
Segue: A Dark [Viral] Refrain
Chapter Four: Immunity, Community and Contagion
Chapter Five: Deeper Entanglements
Outro: Disrupting the Dark Refrain

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tony D. Sampson is Reader in Digital Media Culture and Communication at the University of East London.