The Social Media Reader / / ed. by Michael Mandiberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, C. W.,; Anderson, Chris,; Benenson, Fred,; Benkler, Yochai,; Boyd, Danah,; Coleman, E. Gabriella,; Davison, Patrick,; Dawson, Ashley,; Hyde, Adam,; Jenkins, Henry,; Lessig, Lawrence,; Linksvayer, Mike,; Lohmann, Fred von,; Mandiberg, Michael,; O’Reilly, Tim,; Peirano, Marta,; Rosen, Jay,; Shirky, Clay,; Stalder,,; Tarka, Sissu,; Taylor, Astra,; Toner, Alan,; Vaidhyanathan, Siva,; Zer-Aviv, Mushon,
• HerausgeberIn: Mandiberg, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field.Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, with contributions from Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Clay Shirky, Tim O'Reilly, Chris Anderson, Yochai Benkler, danah boyd, and Fred von Loehmann, to name a few. It covers a wide-ranging topical terrain, much like the internet itself, with particular emphasis on collaboration and sharing, the politics of social media and social networking, Free Culture and copyright politics, and labor and ownership. Theorizing new models of collaboration, identity, commerce, copyright, ownership, and labor, these essays outline possibilities for cultural democracy that arise when the formerly passive audience becomes active cultural creators, while warning of the dystopian potential of new forms of surveillance and control.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Mechanisms -- 1. The People Formerly Known as the Audience -- 2. Sharing Nicel -- 3. Open Source as Culture/ Culture as Open Source -- 4. What Is Web 2.0 -- 5. What Is Collaboration Anyway? -- Part II. Sociality -- 6. Participating in the Always-On Lifestyle -- 7. From Indymedia to Demand Media -- Part III. Humor -- 8. Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls -- 9. The Language of Internet Memes -- Part IV. Money -- 10. The Long Tail -- Part V. Law -- 11. REMIX -- 12. Your Intermediary Is Your Destiny -- 13. On the Fungibility and Necessity of Cultural Freedom -- 14. Giving Things Away Is Hard Work -- Part VI. Labor -- 15. Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars? -- 16. Gin, Television, and Social Surplus -- 17. Between Democracy and Spectacle -- 18. DIY Academy? -- About the Contributors -- Index