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 collecti...

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