Efnisyfirlit

• List of figures and tables
• About the author
• Preface
• I FOUNDATIONS
  • 1 What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media?
    • 1.1 Overview
    • 1.2 What is Critical Thinking and Why Does it Matter?
    • 1.3 What is Critical Theory?
    • 1.4 Critical Theory Approaches
  • 2 What are Social Media?
    • 2.1 Overview
    • 2.2 Web 2.0 and Social Media
    • 2.3 The Need of Social Theory for Understanding Social Media
    • 2.4 Explaining Social Media with Durkheim, Weber, Marx, and Tönnies
    • 2.5 A Model of Social Media Communication
    • 2.6 The Changes of Digital Communication in the Coronavirus Crisis
    • 2.7 Conclusion
  • 3 Big Data Capitalism
    • 3.1 Overview
    • 3.2 Big Data
    • 3.3 Big Data Capitalism
    • 3.4 Big Data Capitalism’s Problems
    • 3.5 Alternatives to Big Data Capitalism
    • 3.6 Big Data’s Digital Positivism: Social Media Research as Big Data Analytics and Computational Social Science
    • 3.7 Conclusion
• II APPLICATIONS
  • 4 The Power and Political Economy of Social Media
    • 4.1 Overview
    • 4.2 The Limits of Social Media Participation
    • 4.3 The Cycle of Capital Accumulation
    • 4.4 Capital Accumulation and Social Media
    • 4.5 The International Division of Digital Labour
    • 4.6 Digital Labour on Facebook, Slave Labour, and Housework: Commonalities and Differences
    • 4.7 Conclusion
  • 5 Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?
    • 5.1 Overview
    • 5.2 Google’s Political Economy
    • 5.3 Googology: Google and Ideology
    • 5.4 Work at Google
    • 5.5 Google: God and Satan in One Company
    • 5.6 Google and the State: Monopoly Power and Tax Avoidance
    • 5.7 Conclusion
  • 6 Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News
    • 6.1 Overview
    • 6.2 Facebook’s Political Economy
    • 6.3 The Political Economy of WhatsApp
    • 6.4 Facebook and the Like-Ideology
    • 6.5 The Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Fake News on Facebook
    • 6.6 Surveillance Capitalism?
    • 6.7 Conclusion
  • 7 Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat
    • 7.1 Overview
    • 7.2 Influencer Capitalism’s Political Economy
    • 7.3 Influencer Capitalism’s Ideology
    • 7.4 Influencer Capitalism’s Problems
    • 7.5 Socialist Influencers
    • 7.6 Conclusion
  • 8 Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere?
    • 8.1 Overview
    • 8.2 Twitter’s Political Economy
    • 8.3 Habermas’s Concept of the Public Sphere
    • 8.4 Political Communication on Twitter
    • 8.5 Uncivil Communication on Twitter
    • 8.6 @JürgenHabermas #Twitter #PublicSphere
    • 8.7 Social Movements and Political Parties in the Digital Age
    • 8.8 Conclusion
  • 9 Right-wing Authoritarianism on Social Media
    • 9.1 Overview
    • 9.2 Right-wing Authoritarianism
    • 9.3 Authoritarian Leadership on Social Media
    • 9.4 Nationalism on Social Media
    • 9.5 The Friend/Enemy-Scheme on Social Media
    • 9.6 Violence and Militant Patriarchy on Social Media
    • 9.7 Conclusion
  • 10 Weibo: Power, Ideology, and Social Struggles in China
    • 10.1 Overview
    • 10.2 Weibo’s Political Economy
    • 10.3 Weibo and Social Media Ideologies
    • 10.4 The Chinese Internet’s Political Control
    • 10.5 Chinese Social Struggles in the Age of Weibo
    • 10.6 Conclusion
  • 11 The Sharing Economy of Airbnb, Uber, and Upwork
    • 11.1 Overview
    • 11.2 Uber and Upwork: The Pay-per-Service Sharing Model
    • 11.3 Airbnb: The Capitalist Sharing Economy’s Rent-on-Rent Model
    • 11.4 Conclusion
  • 12 Platform Capitalism
    • 12.1 Overview
    • 12.2 Platforms, Platform Society, and Platform Capitalism
    • 12.3 Platform Co-operativism: An Alternative Platform Society beyond Platform Capitalism?
    • 12.4 Conclusion
  • 13 Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production?
    • 13.1 Overview
    • 13.2 The Communist Idea
    • 13.3 Communication and Communism
    • 13.4 Wikipedia’s Political Economy
    • 13.5 Conclusion
• III FUTURES
  • 14 Capitalist Social Media’s Major Problems and Alternatives
    • 14.1 Social Media Reality: Ten Problems
    • 14.2 Digital Alienation
    • 14.3 Social Media Alternatives
    • 14.4 Conclusion
  • 15 A Manifesto for Truly Social Media
    • 15.1 Introduction
    • 15.2 Digital Alternatives: Platform Co-operatives
    • 15.3 Digital Alternatives: Towards a Public Service Internet
    • 15.4 Ten Principles of Communicative/Digital Socialism
    • 15.5 Towards a Truly Social Media and a New Society
• References
• Index

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