Social media / social networking Books
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC FLIP
Book SynopsisCall my narcissism whatever you want. And while you''re at it; like, comment, subscribe, worship - fucking bow down.Meet Carleen and Crystal. The influencers with cultural commentary that will have you in stitches. Love them or hate them, there's no stopping their fast-growing online following. Offline, Carleen has her reservations about their cyber personas, but she idolises Crystal and would follow her anywhere even to FLIP!, the new social media giant that has everyone hooked and Carleen and Crystal are no exception; especially when it seems that their videos could make them famous.Superstardom, followers, fame, influence, money: it''s all just one click away. FLIP! is the answer to everything they''ve ever dreamed of. But is it too good to be true?FLIP! is a powerful new satire from critically-acclaimed writer Racheal Ofori that probes what it means to live freely under the shadow of social media, encroaching on every aspect of our lives. How can we be our authentic
£13.39
Orion Publishing Co The Anatomy of Desire
Book SynopsisA compelling and original suspense novel for fans of You, Good Me Bad Me and podcast hit Serial, written in the style of Daisy Jones and the Six.Trade ReviewA truly innovative, fantastic book . . . Reads like your favorite podcast, the hit crime doc you'll want to binge * Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box *Centered on the world of social media influencers, [this] remarkable debut takes the form of a true crime docuseries. . . With no witnesses to the murder, readers will breathlessly await the verdict. Dorn, the pen name of husband-and-wife team Matt Dorff and Suzanne Dunn, is definitely a writer to watch * Publishers Weekly *A riveting courtroom drama. It uses skilfully fashioned plot twists to gradually reveal the background and aftermath of a tragedy born of naive but simultaneously ruthless ambition, childhood damage and the ripple effects of prejudice * Morning Star *'Deliciously contemporary. A fascinating courtroom drama . . . a compelling, poignant portrait of sexual desire in our social media age' * Daily Mail *
£9.99
John Murray Press The Ultimate Personal Success Book
Book SynopsisIf you want to be the best, you have to have the right skillset.From people skills and effective networking to building assertiveness and mastering memory techniques, THE ULTIMATE PERSONAL SUCCESS BOOK is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success.Discover the main themes and key ideas, and bring it all together with practical exercises.This is your complete course in personal success.ABOUT THE SERIESULTIMATE books are for managers, leaders, and business executives who want to succeed at work. From marketing and sales to management and finance, each title gives comprehensive coverage of the essential business skills you need to get ahead in your career. Written in straightforward English, each book is designed to help you quickly master the subject, with fun quizzes embedded so that you can check how you''re doing.
£14.24
Little, Brown & Company Choose Your Own Disaster
Book SynopsisA hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman''s terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping (and sometimes failing) to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the terrible decisions she made in her early twenties through the internet''s favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, CHOOSE YOUR OWN DISASTER is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of you can be anything you want! is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be. Dana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she''s a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best.
£13.29
Quercus Publishing WFH (Working From Home): How to build a career
Book Synopsis'Harriet Minter offers a one-stop resource for those working from home or those who want to work from home but are still sceptical.' - The Financial Times' . . . a must-read for post-Covid times.' - People Management MagazineThe no bullsh*t guide to getting your work and life on track in the new flexible workplace.Virtually every industry is making lasting changes that will open doors to a more flexible working week. So how do we adjust, thrive and excel in an environment where glitchy daily video conferences are the norm?By turns fierce, funny and highly practical, Harriet Minter will show you the skills to be effective and creative during the day-to-day. Harriet breaks down how to be an inspiring and energising manager (either remotely or to a flexibly working team), how to create and thrive in a high-trust culture (on a small and large scale) and most importantly how to achieve your ambition and propel your career forwards.Packed full of hard-won tricks, tips and tools, Harriet Minter draws on her own experience as a careers coach and adviser to companies on their flexible working culture to help you bring your best self to work - from your living room.Trade ReviewHarriet Minter offers a one-stop resource for those working from home or those who want to work from home but are still sceptical. * The Financial Times *A must-read for post-Covid times. * People Management Magazine *We're totally loving Harriet Minter's new book. * Fabulous Magazine (The Sun on Sunday) *Essential reading for anyone who is WFH! Harriet is wise and funny and brilliant! - Kate Leaver, author of The Friendship and Good Dog.[Harriet] has an uncanny knack for tapping in to exactly what needs unpicking in our working lives. She's brilliant! Her brain is remarkable. - Laura Jane Williams, author of Our Stop.
£14.24
Zaffre Virtual Strangers: ‘Funny, sweet, and full of
Book SynopsisThe Flatshare meets a modern You've Got MailDo you believe in love at first type? When Ada set up her own PR firm from a coffee shop, she didn't expect to meet journalist Fraser. Also working there daily, he soon becomes a friend. Reporting on interesting things to do around Edinburgh, Fraser ropes Ada into accompanying him on his assignments. As they work side-by-side Ada can't help but notice how attractive Fraser is, and how well they get along. But, Ada has been chatting to a guy she met on an Agatha Christie fan fiction site, and she can't stop wondering about him. His interests are the same as hers, and the anonymity helps them both be more honest and open. As Ada's messages with the mystery man become deeper, she thinks she's falling for him. Ada is torn between Fraser and Myster-E - but can you have real feelings for someone when you're virtual strangers?Trade ReviewSam Canning has written a romance it's so easy to fall in love with. I adored every moment of Ada and Fraser's budding relationship - and her heart-to-hearts online with Myster-E. Ada is such a vibrant, brilliant character throughout. Funny, sweet, and full of warmth. * Beth Reekles, author of The Kissing Booth *Delightful. An upbeat, fun-filled read about life, love and learning about yourself. * Gillian Harvey *Warm, witty and wise: a story that reminds us that while we all love a mystery, life is a lot less complicated when we're honest. * Gillian Harvey *
£8.54
Duncker & Humblot Staatliche Verantwortung Fur Diskursive
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£67.43
Pennsylvania State University Press The Rise of the Algorithms
Book SynopsisThe meteoric rise of online video is reshaping the competition for human attention. The Rise of the Algorithms argues that this new technology has changed the way we interact with others, our relationships with public institutions, and our very own behaviors and psyches. In tracing the origins and evolution of online video, John M. Jordan examines the mechanicsand the ethical stakesof online video platforms, especially YouTube and TikTok but also others, such as Twitch. Tracing the use of algorithms pioneered by Facebook and Google and so successfully exploited by TikTok's corporate parent, ByteDance, Jordan shows how these platforms now engineer human behaviorwith consequences for culture, politics, and identity. Jordan argues that we are at an inflection point. Until now we have proved, as a society, ill-prepared or unwilling to address such problems as the power of digital platforms, the personal cost of viral celebrity, the invasion of privacy, and the proliferation of disinformati
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Twitter Marketing
Book SynopsisThe complete guide to a successful Twitter marketing campaign Twitter is a microblogging service that''s changing the way we communicate. Marketers recognize its value, and Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day offers marketers, advertisers, brand managers, PR professionals, and business owners an in-depth guide to designing, implementing, and measuring the impact of a complete Twitter strategy. Expert author Hollis Thomases acquaints you with the Twitterverse, its conventions, and its fascinating demographics and statistics. She then teaches you step by step how to effectively craft successful branding and direct response strategies that can be scaled to any organization and its objectives. Twitter Marketing: An Hour a Day uses interesting case studies, success stories, anecdotes, and examples to demonstrate how to use Twitter metrics in order to inform strategic direction. You''ll discover how top companies-large and small-have leveraged this exciting communTable of ContentsForeword xix Introduction xxi Part I Get to Know Twitter 1 Chapter 1 Understand Twitter 3 Twitter History and Definitions 4 Twitter’s Technology 10 Twitter’s Rapid Ascent 14 Twitter’s Financial Future 16 What Makes Tweeps Tick? 17 Twitter’s Culture 33 The Main Points 37 Chapter 2 Who’s Using Twitter for What? 39 Demographics 40 Individual Users 43 Bots, Games, and Memes 56 Small and Home-Based Businesses 60 Not-for-Profits: Charities, Causes, the Arts, Houses of Worship, and Associations 62 Academia and Higher Education 63 Government 64 Marketing, Advertising, Public Relations, and Communications Professionals 65 Media Outlets 67 Sports and Entertainment 70 Corporations and Brands 72 The Main Points 85 Chapter 3 Twitter, the Multipurpose Platform 87 What Twitter Can Accomplish 88 Key Questions to Consider for Branding 119 The Main Points 125 Part II Month 1: Master Twitter Fundamentals 127 Chapter 4 Week 1: Get on Twitter 129 Monday: Create an Account 130 Tuesday: Find People to Follow 147 Wednesday: Learn Twitter Lingo 153 Thursday: Access Twitter 161 Friday: From Lurking to Leaping 163 The Main Points 167 Chapter 5 Week 2: Find and Attract Followers 169 Followers and Following 170 Monday: Use Basic Search to Find Followers 173 Tuesday: Add New Friends 179 Wednesday: Attract Followers 185 Thursday: Syndicate Your Tweet Content 195 Friday: Tools to Help Build and Manage Followers 197 The Main Points 203 Chapter 6 Week 3: Use Twitter Search and Other Tools to Improve Your Experience 205 Search and Other Tools for Twitter 206 Monday: Master Twitter Search 206 Tuesday: Use Tools to Enrich Your Tweets 215 Wednesday: Analyze Your Twitter Activity 227 Thursday: Experiment with Other Useful Twitter Tools 236 Friday: Fun with Twitter Tools 241 The Main Points 246 Chapter 7 Week 4: Track and Monitor What Twitter Generates for You 247 Twitter Metrics 248 Monday: Understand What to Track and How to Review It 248 Tuesday: Alerts—Simple Tracking Tools 255 Wednesday: Advanced Tracking Tools 260 Thursday: Compile Tracking Data 267 Friday: Review, Analyze, and Respond to Tracking Data 270 The Main Points 275 Part III Month 2: Develop and Launch Your Strategic Plan 277 Chapter 8 Week 5: Develop a Successful Twitter Strategy 279 Monday: Study Brands Succeeding with Twitter 280 Tuesday: Different Approaches to Develop Your Strategy 292 Wednesday: Study Strategies for Market Verticals 296 Thursday: Twitter’s Role in Your Overall Marketing Strategy 302 Friday: Avoid Pitfalls 303 The Main Points 307 Chapter 9 Week 6: Establish Goals and Get Corporate Buy-In 309 Monday: Establish Objectives 310 Tuesday: Measure and Report Upon Your Objectives 314 Wednesday: Determine Tweet Topics 317 Thursday: Assign Resources 322 Friday: Get Company Buy-In 325 The Main Points 328 Chapter 10 Week 7: Get Your Brand Started on Twitter 329 Monday: Claim Your Brand’s Twitter Name 330 Tuesday: Set Up Your Brand’s Profile 335 Wednesday: Your First Brand Tweets 342 Thursday: Engage Your Brand’s Followers 347 Friday: Summarize Best Practices 352 The Main Points 355 Chapter 11 Week 8: Monitor, Measure, and Valuate 357 Monday: Review Your Twitter Stats 358 Tuesday: Analyze Your Website Traffic 362 Wednesday: Analyze Actions 366 Thursday: Valuate 370 Friday: Review Case Studies 372 The Main Points 378 Part IV Month 3: Maintain Your Twitter Presence 379 Chapter 12 Week 9: Institutionalize Maintenance 381 Monday: Hold Weekly Meetings 382 Tuesday: Implement Weekly Action Plan 386 Wednesday: Oversee Production Requirements 388 Thursday: Prepare Documentation 390 Friday: Deliver Results to Management 391 The Main Points 393 Chapter 13 Week 10: Prepare for Crisis Management 395 The Reality of Twitter Crises 396 Monday: List Potential Crises 401 Tuesday: Create a Fire Drill 403 Wednesday: Write a Twitter Crisis Management Action Plan 406 Thursday: Know How to Really Say “I’m Sorry” 408 Friday: Distribute Your Crisis Action Plan 410 The Main Points 412 Chapter 14 Week 11: Develop a Direct Response Promotion for Twitter 413 Monday: Define the Need 414 Tuesday: Define Campaign Components 421 Wednesday: Move to Production 425 Thursday: Work Your Announcement Strategy 426 Friday: Launch Your Campaign 427 The Main Points 429 Appendix A Twitter-Related Glossary 431 Appendix B Twitter-Related Tools and Resources 439 Appendix C Tips from Tweeps 447 Appendix D Social Media Guidelines 453 Index 457
£21.84
LUP - University of Michigan Press a tumblr book
Book SynopsisTakes an extensive look at the many different types of users and cultures that comprise the popular social media platform Tumblr. The book contains work from over 60 contributors and includes more than 80 illustrations and three full-color galleries, honoring Tumblr's identity as a heavily image-based social network.
£48.95
University of California Press Redeem All How Digital Life Is Changing
Book SynopsisRedeem All examines the surprising intersection of American evangelicalism and tech innovation. Corrina Laughlin looks at the evangelical Christians who are invested in imagining, using, hacking, adapting, and creating new media technologies for religious purposes. She finds that entrepreneurs, pastors, missionaries, and social media celebrities interpret the promises born in Silicon Valley through the framework of evangelical culture and believe that digital media can help them (to paraphrase Steve Jobs) put their own dent in the universe. Laughlin introduces readers to startup churches hoping to reach a global population, entrepreneurs coding for a deeper purpose, digital missionaries networking with mobile phones, and Christian influencers and podcasters seeking new forms of community engagement. Redeem All reveals how evangelicalism has changed as it eagerly adopts the norms of the digital age.Trade Review"Laughlin’s deft navigation of diverse scholarly literatures makes this volume a useful and appealing one for a variety of uses and audiences. . . .Redeem All is an important profile that arrives at a key moment in the negotiation of evangelical identity." * Reading Religion *"[A] wonderful, contributive scholarship that will lead to better understandings of the virtual and physical lives of American evangelicals today." * California History *"Redeem All will be particularly valuable for those interested in the faith-tech scene and for scholars who focus on race and gender in contemporary evangelicalism." * Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Church: From the Megachurch to the Start-up Church 2. The Start-up: The Culture of Faith-Tech and the Promise of Redemptive Entrepreneurship 3. Media Missions: Proselytizing on the Electronic Frontier 4. The Influencers: The Rise of Evangelical Influencers and the Potency of Popular Parochial Feminism on Social Media 5. Racial Reckoning and Repair: The Urgent Conversation about Race on the Black Christian Podcast Circuit Conclusion Glossary Notes References Index
£22.50
Princeton University Press The Influencer Industry
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A penetrating, well-considered look behind the polished scenes of the influencer industry." * Kirkus *"Emily Hund’s remarkable book is a timely contribution. . . . Hund’s book arrives at a point when the influencer industry has penetrated the mainstream to an unprecedented degree. It is a fascinating moment to reflect on a role which finds itself at the interface between a number of societal transformations."---Mark Carrigan, LSE Review of Books"[The Influencer Industry] should be read by anyone who desires a greater knowledge of the influencer industry, as well as any course on media industries and internet culture."---Mariah L. Wellman, Media Industries Journal
£22.50
Wiley-Blackwell Marketing with Social Media
Book SynopsisIntroduce your business to the world with this essential guide to social media marketing Marketing with Social Media: 10 Easy Steps to success for Businessis your step-by-step guide to using Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and YouTube to promote your business. In 10 quick and easy steps, you''ll learn how to use social media effectively, establish a simple marketing plan and measure the results of your efforts. You''ll learn the basics of building profile pages, and how to create appropriate content that can be accessed by thousands of potential customers. This new edition is packed full of tips, traps to avoid and social media success stories, plus information on the newer platforms including Vine and Instagram. Social media is a low-cost marketing strategy that can be a huge bonus to small businesses. With the right technique, you can get to know your customers better, and expand your networks without breaking the bank, all while retaining ful
£13.05
Cornell University Press The Breakup 2.0
Book SynopsisA few generations ago, college students showed their romantic commitments by exchanging special objects: rings, pins, varsity letter jackets. Pins and rings were handy, telling everyone in local communities that you were spoken for, and when you broke up, the absence of a ring let everyone know you were available again. Is being Facebook official really more complicated, or are status updates just a new version of these old tokens?Many people are now fascinated by how new media has affected the intricacies of relationships and their dissolution. People often talk about Facebook and Twitter as platforms that have led to a seismic shift in transparency and (over)sharing. What are the new rules for breaking up? These rules are argued over and mocked in venues from the New York Times to lamebook.com, but well-thought-out and informed considerations of the topic are rare.Ilana Gershon was intrigued by the degree to which her students used new media to communicate important Trade ReviewBreaking up is hard to do, and, as Ilana Gershon observes, it can be even harder when technology is brought into the mix. Gershon interviewed over 70 people (many of them college students) to examine how they used chatting, email, texting, and social networking websites in conjunction with their relationships and found that opinions and social rules governing the intersection of romance and technology are still highly variable. Why would some people rather break up through email, while others prefer instant messaging? What kind of problems arise when a couple has different ideas about how to digitally negotiate the end of their relationship? How do the social and public aspects of sites like Facebook affect one's actions during a relationship and after its dissolution? Mindful of the complicated nature of the topic, Gershon never attempts to define which behaviors are right or wrong but instead concentrates on exploring the ways people think about these tools and what their beliefs show about society's responses to technology. Though written with an academic focus, this is an intriguing read for anyone interested in how social conventions for new media develop and the ways that technology is changing romantic relationships. * Library Journal *In her surprisingly gripping first book, Gershon argues that Facebook and other forms of new media social networking have radically changed the playing field of accepted interactions. Generations navigate these new forms differently and a whole new set of norms is being developed to judge behavior. No subject has dominated the discussion more than the ways in which we handle romantic relationships: when they begin, when to go public, and how to bring them to an end. Do people really break up via text message? The answer is yes, and Gershon asserts that in this case 'the medium is at odds with the message.' A professor of communications, the author takes a distinctly academic approach, lending legitimacy to what might otherwise be easily dismissed. She understands how new media shapes social communications and addresses its constant evolution. Readers interested in communication theory and new media evolution will appreciate the author's excellent balance of analysis, anecdote, and readability. * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover: Media Ideologies and Idioms of Practice2 E-mail My Heart: The Structure of Technology and Heartache3 Remediation and Heartache4 How Do You Know?5 Breaking Up in a PublicConclusion Bibliography Index
£18.99
Louisiana State University Press Politics for the Love of Fandom
Book SynopsisExamines what Ashley Hinck calls “fan-based citizenship”: civic action that blends with and arises from participation in fandom and commitment to a fan-object. Hinck argues that fan-based citizenship has created new civic practices wherein popular culture may play a large role in generating social action.
£35.06
Teachers' College Press Curating a Literacy Life StudentCentered
Book SynopsisSpotlights the idea of curation as a process for inspiring student-centered learning with digital media. Young people need to learn to become purposeful collectors and, thus, curators of their own learning. In this book, Kist shows educators how to empower students as they make sense of all the books, videos, websites, and social media they access.
£28.01
John Wiley & Sons Curating a Literacy Life StudentCentered
Book SynopsisSpotlights the idea of curation as a process for inspiring student-centered learning with digital media. Young people need to learn to become purposeful collectors and, thus, curators of their own learning. In this book, Kist shows educators how to empower students as they make sense of all the books, videos, websites, and social media they access.
£70.20
University of Pennsylvania Press Digital Media and Democratic Futures Democracy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A substantial, unique, and much needed contribution to our understanding of media, politics, and policy. Inspired and comprehensive in its approach, Digital Media and Democratic Futures offers a set of fresh and original questions answered by innovative thinkers." * Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois, Chicago *"Digital Media and Democratic Futures forges new lines of interdisciplinary research. Editor Michael X. Delli Carpini and the book's contributors identify the stakes in digital politics and describe the relationships between disparate phenomena, from the Internet of Things to Black Lives Matter." * David Karpf, George Washington University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Digital Media and the Future(s) of Democracy —Michael X. Delli Carpini PART I. DESIGNING DIGITAL DEMOCRACIES 1. Programming the Rules of Engagement: Social Media Design and the Nonprofit System —Rena Bivens 2. Digital Opportunity Structures: Explaining Variation in Digital Mobilization During the 2016 Democratic Primaries —Daniel Kreiss 3. Kids These Days: Supply and Demand for Youth Online Political Engagement —Thomas Elliott and Jennifer Earl PART II. RETHINKING EXPERTISE IN DIGITAL DEMOCRACIES 4. Why Dewey Was Wrong —Beth Simone Noveck 5. Counting the Uncounted: What the Absence of Data on Police Killings Reveals —Kelly Gates 6. Digital Peripheries and the Politics of Expertise in Nairobi, Kenya —Lisa Poggiali PART III. DIGITAL MEDIA AND PUBLIC VOICES 7. Authoritarian Deliberation 2.0: Lurking and Discussing Politics in Chinese Social Media —Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo 8. How the Market for Social Media Shapes Strategies of Internet Censorship —Jennifer Pan 9. The Measure of a Movement: Quantifying Black Lives Matter's Social Media Power —Deen Freelon PART IV. REGULATING DIGITAL DEMOCRACIES 10. Must Privacy Give Way to Use Regulation? —Helen Nissenbaum 11. Democratic Futures and the Internet of Things: How Information Infrastructure Will Become a Political Constitution —Philip N. Howard Contributors Index Acknowledgments
£56.10
John Wiley & Sons Inc Social Change Anytime Everywhe
Book SynopsisStrategies for advocacy, fundraising, and engaging the community Social Change Anytime Everywhere was written for nonprofit staff who say themselves or are asked by others, Email communications, social media, and mobile are important, but how will they help our nonprofit and the issues we work on? Most importantly, how the heck do we integrate and utilize these tools successfully? The book will help answer these questions, and is organized to guide readers through the planning and implementation of online multi-channel strategies that will spark advocacy, raise money and promote deeper community engagement in order to achieve social change in real time. It also serves as a resource to help nonprofit staff and their boards quickly understand the evolving online landscape and identify and implement the best online channels, strategies, tools, and tactics to help their organizations achieve their missions.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables ix Foreword xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxi The Authors xxiii ONE Why Are Online and Mobile Channels So Important to Nonprofits Today? 1 TWO Guiding Principles for Anytime Everywhere 7 THREE Advocacy Anytime Everywhere 37 FOUR Fundraising Anytime Everywhere 77 FIVE Community Building Anytime Everywhere 115 SIX Multichannel Strategies in Action 141 SEVEN Equipping Your Organization for Anytime Everywhere 161 EIGHT Transitioning to Anytime Everywhere 185 Conclusion: Disrupting the Nonprofit Sector 201 Notes 211 Index 219
£25.64
John Wiley & Sons Inc Social Media Sociality and Survey Research
Book SynopsisThe first book to address how social media is revolutionizing the field of survey research, Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research equips readers with a new ideology for conducting data collection and analysis in the face of emerging technologies.Trade Review“This book is a must read for any researcher who wants to make use of social media data; it is incisive, instructive, easy to read and, above all, fascinating.” (Social Research Association, 1 June 2014)Table of ContentsList of Figures xiii List of Tables xvii Contributors xix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxv 1. Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research 1 Joe Murphy, Craig A. Hill, and Elizabeth Dean What Is Social Media? 2 Social Media Origins 6 Social Networking Sites and Platforms 6 Blogs 8 Twitter 8 Facebook 9 LinkedIn 9 Second Life 9 Other Social Networking Platforms and Functionalities 10 Why Should Survey Researchers Be Interested in Social Media? 11 The Current State of Survey Research 11 Falling Response Rates 11 Frame Coverage Errors 13 The Coming Age of Ubiquity 14 Public vs. Private Data 17 Social Media Interaction: Next Wave (or Subwave)? 18 Adding Social Media to the Survey Research Toolbox 21 Toward Using the Concept of Sociality in Survey Research of the Future 22 How Can Survey Researchers Use Social Media Data? 26 References 28 2. Sentiment Analysis: Providing Categorical Insight into Unstructured Textual Data 35 Carol Haney Describing Emotional or Subjective Feeling in Textual Data 36 Definition of Machine-Augmented Sentiment Analysis 37 How Sentiment Analysis Is Used with Text Data 38 Different Ways of Representing Sentiment 42 Ordinal Scales 42 Nominal Emotion Classification 43 Neutral Sentiment 44 Techniques for Determining Sentiment 44 Precursors to Analysis 44 Harvesting 46 Structure and Understand 50 Approaches to Determining Sentiment 51 Machine-Coded Sentiment Analysis 51 Human-Coded Sentiment Analysis 53 Sentiment Analysis as a Subset of Text Analytics 54 Current Limitations of Sentiment Analysis 57 References 59 3. Can Tweets Replace Polls? A U.S. Health-Care Reform Case Study 61 Annice Kim, Joe Murphy, Ashley Richards, Heather Hansen, Rebecca Powell, and Carol Haney Methods 64 Twitter Data 64 Public Opinion About Health-Care Reform: Kaiser Health Tracking Poll 70 Analysis 70 Results 71 RQ1: To What Extent Was Health-Care Reform Discussed on Twitter? 71 RQ2: What Is the Distribution of Sentiment of Health-Care Reform Tweets? 74 RQ3. Do Trends in the Sentiment of Tweets About Health-Care Reform Correlate with Observed Trends in Public Opinion About Health-Care Reform from Nationally Representative Probability-Based Surveys? 75 KFF Trends 75 Comparison 77 RQ4. What Are the Key Topics Discussed in Health-Care Reform Tweets? 78 Discussion 80 Conclusions 84 References 85 4. The Facebook Platform and the Future of Social Research 87 Adam Sage The Changing Web: From Searchable to Social 88 Digital and Digitized Data 93 The Case for Facebook Integration 94 Data and the Graph API 97 Facebook Applications 99 Social Plugins 103 The Future, Mobile Apps, and the Ever Increasing Complexity of the Social Graph 104 References 104 5. Virtual Cognitive Interviewing Using Skype and Second Life 107 Elizabeth Dean, Brian Head, and Jodi Swicegood Brief Background on Cognitive Interviews 108 Cognitive Interviewing Current Practice 109 Practitioners’ Techniques 109 Cognitive Interviews in Practice: Present and Future 112 Second Life for Survey Research 114 Methods 115 Recruitment 115 Screening 117 Incentive 118 Think-Aloud and Probes 118 Results 118 Overall Participant Characteristics 118 Feasibility of Pilot Study 120 Quality of Cognitive Interviews by Mode 121 Participant Disengagement 122 Nonverbal Cues 125 Total Problems 126 Type and Severity of Problems 126 Conclusions 127 Discussion and Future Research 128 References 129 6. Second Life as a Survey Lab: Exploring the Randomized Response Technique in a Virtual Setting 133 Ashley Richards and Elizabeth Dean Overview of Second Life 134 Research in Second Life 134 The Randomized Response Technique 136 Study Design 137 Results 142 Discussion 144 References 146 7. Decisions, Observations, and Considerations for Developing a Mobile Survey App and Panel 149 David Roe, Yuying Zhang, and Michael Keating Impact of the Evolution of Technology on Data Collection 150 Telephone Interviewing 151 Web Interviewing 151 Cell Phones 152 Smartphones 153 Building an App 156 Goals 157 Preliminary Findings 168 Recruitment 170 Respondent Communication 170 Survey Topics 172 Respondent Impressions on Incentives, Survey Length, and Frequency 175 Next Steps 175 References 176 8. Crowdsourcing: A Flexible Method for Innovation, Data Collection, and Analysis in Social Science Research 179 Michael Keating, Bryan Rhodes, and Ashley Richards What Is Crowdsourcing? 180 Open Innovation 181 Cisco Systems I-Prize Challenge 182 RTI International’s 2012 Research Challenge 183 Options for Hosting Your Own Challenges 185 Legal Considerations 186 Data Collection 187 Crowdsourcing Survey Response on Mechanical Turk 187 Targeted Data Collection 190 Cost Considerations 194 MyHeartMap Challenge 195 Analysis by Crowdsourcing 197 Sentiment Analysis 197 Challenge-Based Data Analysis 198 Conclusion 199 References 200 9. Collecting Diary Data on Twitter 203 Ashley Richards, Elizabeth Dean, and Sarah Cook Background 204 Twitter 204 Diaries 204 Methods 206 Recruitment 208 Data Collection 210 Results 211 Nonresponse 212 Data Quality 216 Incentive Preference 221 Participant Feedback 222 Discussion 227 References 229 10. Recruiting Participants with Chronic Conditions in Second Life 231 Saira N. Haque and Jodi Swicegood Background 233 Methods 234 Instrument Development 235 Recruitment Methods 235 Survey Administration 244 Results 244 Discussion 247 Communities 247 Using Existing Second Life Resources 248 Other Effective Methods 249 The Importance of the Recruitment Avatar 249 Conclusion 250 References 251 11. Gamification of Market Research 253 Jon Puleston Significance of Gamification in Market Research 254 Apply Gamification to Market Research 256 Gamification in Survey Design 259 Apply Rules to Question Design 265 Add the Competitive Element 269 Add Reward Mechanics 271 Give Feedback 272 Make Tasks More Involving 273 Ensure the Challenge Can Be Accomplished 275 How to Design Questions To Be More Game-Like 275 Common Questions About Gamification 284 Who Responds to Gamification? 284 What Impact Does Gamification Have on the Data? 285 How Do These Techniques Work in Different Cultures? 289 Conclusions 291 References 292 12. The Future of Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research 295 Craig A. Hill and Jill Dever Statistical Challenges with Social Media Data 296 Quality and Representativeness 297 Sampling from Social Media Sources 298 Population Estimation from Social Media Data 303 Future Opportunities 306 What Does the Future Hold? 307 Sociality Hierarchy Level 1: Broadcast 308 Sociality Hierarchy Level 2: Conversation 311 Sociality Hierarchy Level 3: Community 312 Final Thoughts 314 References 315 Index 319
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Digital Etiquette For Dummies
Book SynopsisMind your online P's and Q's with this expert digital manners guide Conducting yourself online can be challenging. It sometimes seems like the web and social media is tailor-made to cause upset and anger. But, with the right guide, anyone can learn how to be a beacon of civility and politeness online. In Digital Etiquette For Dummies, a team of online communication experts share their combined insights into improving your presence on social media, writing emails that exude positivity and clarity, behaving correctly in virtual meetings, and much more. You'll become a paragon of politeness as you learn to apply the timeless rules of etiquette to the unique environment of the web, social media, email, Zoom, and smartphones. In this book, you'll also: Learn near-universal etiquette rules for email, social media, cellphones, and moreDiscover ways to make sure that your polite attitude isn't being lost in the text-only context of a business emailAvoid common social media pitfalls and digitalTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: Etiquette Guidelines 5 Chapter 1: Defining Etiquette in the Digital Age 7 Chapter 2: The Legal Ins and Outs of Etiquette 23 Chapter 3: Minding Your Online Manners at Any Age 51 Part 2: Social Media Etiquette 63 Chapter 4: Learning the Language of Social Media 65 Chapter 5: Sharing Your Thoughts in Posts and Comments 81 Chapter 6: Handling Negative Comments and Reviews 101 Chapter 7: Going Viral: The Good, the Bad, and the Unintended 115 Chapter 8: Group Decorum 129 Chapter 9: Being Likeable During Livestreaming 143 Part 3: Email Courtesies 157 Chapter 10: Email Best Practices That Won’t Let You Down 159 Chapter 11: Spam, the Law, and You 169 Part 4: Virtual Meeting Manners 187 Chapter 12: The Basics of Virtual Meetings 189 Chapter 13: Leading a Virtual Meeting 201 Chapter 14: Making an Appearance at a Virtual Meeting 215 Chapter 15: Webinar and Online Event Proprieties 229 Part 5: Mobile Mien 245 Chapter 16: Context in Messaging and SMS 247 Chapter 17: No One Wants to Hear Your Phone 257 Chapter 18: When and How to Use Text Messaging SMS 269 Chapter 19: Pleasant Direct Messaging 283 Part 6: The Part of Tens 303 Chapter 20: Ten Good Manners to Follow 305 Chapter 21: Ten Bad Behaviors to Avoid 313 Index 321 ntroduction 1 Part 1: Etiquette Guidelines 5 Chapter 1: Defining Etiquette in the Digital Age 7 Chapter 2: The Legal Ins and Outs of Etiquette 23 Chapter 3: Minding Your Online Manners at Any Age 51 Part 2: Social Media Etiquette 63 Chapter 4: Learning the Language of Social Media 65 Chapter 5: Sharing Your Thoughts in Posts and Comments 81 Chapter 6: Handling Negative Comments and Reviews 101 Chapter 7: Going Viral: The Good, the Bad, and the Unintended 115 Chapter 8: Group Decorum 129 Chapter 9: Being Likeable During Livestreaming 143 Part 3: Email Courtesies 157 Chapter 10: Email Best Practices That Won’t Let You Down 159 Chapter 11: Spam, the Law, and You 169 Part 4: Virtual Meeting Manners 187 Chapter 12: The Basics of Virtual Meetings 189 Chapter 13: Leading a Virtual Meeting 201 Chapter 14: Making an Appearance at a Virtual Meeting 215 Chapter 15: Webinar and Online Event Proprieties 229 Part 5: Mobile Mien 245 Chapter 16: Context in Messaging and SMS 247 Chapter 17: No One Wants to Hear Your Phone 257 Chapter 18: When and How to Use Text Messaging SMS 269 Chapter 19: Pleasant Direct Messaging 283 Part 6: The Part of Tens 303 Chapter 20: Ten Good Manners to Follow 305 Chapter 21: Ten Bad Behaviors to Avoid 313 Index 321
£16.19
Duke University Press Gestures of Concern
Book SynopsisChris Ingraham shows that gestures of concern, such as sharing or liking a post on social media, are central to establishing the necessary conditions for larger social or political change because they help to build the affective communities that orient us to one another with an imaginable future in mind.Trade Review“Chris Ingraham is a lively and engaging writer. While crafting beautiful prose he exhibits remarkable patience with trivial—often ephemeral—objects. Thus, he gives us ample opportunity to appreciate their public relevance and the role they play in helping to constitute public life in the internet age. And all of this he draws under the aegis of ‘gestures of concern’—a gem of a concept that makes a significant contribution to rhetoric, political theory, and public sphere theory.” -- Ted Striphas, author of * The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control *“Laying out precisely why gestures of concern are significant and reminding us that there are never any empty gestures, Chris Ingraham offers a timely response to a certain reductive political discourse that sees meaning only in terms of representation. This book is a real pleasure to read.” -- Jenny Rice, author of * Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis *“Ingraham’s wide-ranging engagement with rhetoric, artistic production, political engagement, and participatory culture makes his book of interest to those readers attracted to an interdisciplinary approach to cultural studies.” -- Nicole Dib * Lateral *“[The] unfinished, uncertain, future-oriented dimension of the gesture is one of the key ideas in [Gestures of Concern], and it will help scholars in a number of fields push beyond critical practices that are too certain of themselves.” -- Jim Brown * Rhetoric Society Quarterly *“Ingraham’s book is a timely investigation. In a period in which we are inundated by information and noise, he hopes to turn our attention to the quieter participatory acts ordinary people perform.... This work is an insightful look at the power of our concern.” -- Ashleigh Angus * Continuum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Shape We're In 1 1. Idiot Winds 23 2. Stickiness 51 3. Democratizing Creativity, Curating Culture 78 4. Citizen Artists, Citizen Critics 108 5. Uncommonwealth 133 6. Affective Commonwealths 161 Epilogue. The Poet and the Anthropocene 187 Notes 197 Bibliography 225 Index
£98.60
Duke University Press Gestures of Concern
Book SynopsisChris Ingraham shows that gestures of concern, such as sharing or liking a post on social media, are central to establishing the necessary conditions for larger social or political change because they help to build the affective communities that orient us to one another with an imaginable future in mind.Trade Review“Chris Ingraham is a lively and engaging writer. While crafting beautiful prose he exhibits remarkable patience with trivial—often ephemeral—objects. Thus, he gives us ample opportunity to appreciate their public relevance and the role they play in helping to constitute public life in the internet age. And all of this he draws under the aegis of ‘gestures of concern’—a gem of a concept that makes a significant contribution to rhetoric, political theory, and public sphere theory.” -- Ted Striphas, author of * The Late Age of Print: Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control *“Laying out precisely why gestures of concern are significant and reminding us that there are never any empty gestures, Chris Ingraham offers a timely response to a certain reductive political discourse that sees meaning only in terms of representation. This book is a real pleasure to read.” -- Jenny Rice, author of * Distant Publics: Development Rhetoric and the Subject of Crisis *“Ingraham’s wide-ranging engagement with rhetoric, artistic production, political engagement, and participatory culture makes his book of interest to those readers attracted to an interdisciplinary approach to cultural studies.” -- Nicole Dib * Lateral *“[The] unfinished, uncertain, future-oriented dimension of the gesture is one of the key ideas in [Gestures of Concern], and it will help scholars in a number of fields push beyond critical practices that are too certain of themselves.” -- Jim Brown * Rhetoric Society Quarterly *“Ingraham’s book is a timely investigation. In a period in which we are inundated by information and noise, he hopes to turn our attention to the quieter participatory acts ordinary people perform.... This work is an insightful look at the power of our concern.” -- Ashleigh Angus * Continuum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Shape We're In 1 1. Idiot Winds 23 2. Stickiness 51 3. Democratizing Creativity, Curating Culture 78 4. Citizen Artists, Citizen Critics 108 5. Uncommonwealth 133 6. Affective Commonwealths 161 Epilogue. The Poet and the Anthropocene 187 Notes 197 Bibliography 225 Index
£25.19
New York University Press Creator Culture
Book SynopsisExplores new perspectives on social media entertainmentThere is a new class of cultural producersYouTube vloggers, Twitch gameplayers, Instagram influencers, TikTokers, Chinese wanghong, and otherswho are part of a rapidly emerging and highly disruptive industry of monetized user-generated content. As this new wave of native social media entrepreneurs emerge, so do new formations of culture and the ways they are studied. In this volume, contributors draw on scholarship in media and communication studies, science and technology studies, and social media, Internet, and platform studies, in order to define this new field of study and the emergence of creator culture. Creator Culture introduces readers to new paradigms of social media entertainment from critical perspectives, demonstrating both relations to and differentiations from the well-established media forms and institutions traditionally within the scope of media studies. This volume does not seek to impose a uniform perspectivTrade Review"This lively collection puts forth a persuasive case for ‘creator culture’ as a major new force in media industries worldwide. Drawing from intricate analyses and ethnographies of creator practices across the globe, the scholars in this volume show how today’s social media entrepreneurs exist at the uneasy intersection of platforms, legacy media, and advertising. From unboxing videos to fashion influencers, these essays explore the cultural logics of online creators and their larger sociocultural contexts. An essential collection for scholars of branding, celebrity, and social media, and anyone interested in the future of entertainment." * Alice E. Marwick, author of Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age *"What could once be referred to confidently as ‘the media’ has fragmented into a diverse array of creators, platforms, audiences, communities, regulatory responsibilities, and business models. With Creator Culture, Cunningham and Craig have captured the zeitgeist of social media entertainment, bringing together an array of leading international researchers to critically analyze this emergent field." * Terry Flew, University of Sydney *
£25.19
University of Minnesota Press Shareveillance: The Dangers of Openly Sharing and
Book SynopsisCracking open the politics of transparency and secrecy In an era of open data and ubiquitous dataveillance, what does it mean to “share”? This book argues that we are all “shareveillant” subjects, called upon to be transparent and render data open at the same time as the security state invests in practices to keep data closed. Drawing on Jacques Rancière’s “distribution of the sensible,” Clare Birchall reimagines sharing in terms of a collective political relationality beyond the veillant expectations of the state. Table of ContentsContentsIntroductionReal PeopleThe Attack on TenureFailed LeadershipEye on the BallNo ConfidenceConclusion: Where Are We Now?Acknowledgments
£9.00
Business Expert Press Cryptosocial: How Cryptocurrencies Are Changing
Book SynopsisCryptocurrency & Social Media Have Married and This is What It Looks LikeSocial media is a multi-billion-dollar industry where the platforms profit from user-generated content. Cryptocurrencies have arrived to end the exploitation.Cryptosocial: How Cryptocurrencies Are Changing Social Media surveys the history of social media and cryptocurrencies to show how these two unrelated technologies had a chance meeting that is changing the world. If you're one of the millions of people growing tired of legacy social media and how they take advantage of their own users, this book will open your eyes to the alternatives offering greater happiness, more freedom, and better personal and financial security. Read this book and you'll learn: What cryptosocial is all about. Which platforms and protocols you should pay attention to. Why cryptosocial media is the best alternative for Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. How to start using cryptosocial media. What you need to participate in decentralized social media platforms. And how you can profit from your own content, gain more control over your identity, and maintain security over your online data and personal assets.
£21.80
Information Age Publishing Connect the Dots: How to Build, Nurture, and
Book SynopsisFeeling guilty about not networking enough? Stop! You can learn how to network effectively without attending networking events, collecting business cards, or getting a lot of LinkedIn followers. How? By learning how to Connect the Dots.Written by Inga Carboni, Ph.D., Connect the Dots is a fun, fast-paced, and fact-based book for working professionals seeking to take the next step in their careers. The truth is that networking is not about managing impressions or projecting your personal brand. Effective networkers build, nurture, and leverage relationships, real relationships built on genuine connection. When done correctly, networking isn’t sleazy or manipulative. Instead, it’s empowering — for you, for all the people you know, and for all the people they know.Connect the Dots: How to Build, Nurture, and Leverage Your Network to Achieve Your Personal and Professional Goals offers a combination of personal stories, business anecdotes, self-assessments, exercises, and concrete guidelines grounded in the latest scientific research. Connect the Dots focuses on developing your personal power and leadership skills by creating effective networks and networking effectively. This book is designed to benefit everyone, from young professionals to senior managers to human resource professionals to C-suite executives.Unleash the power of your network by learning how to connect the dots to make your network work for you.Trade ReviewIn Connect the Dots, Inga Carboni has accomplished an exceptional blend of findings housed in research with pragmatic insights that can be put into action immediately. The richness of her stories and examples will resonate with all as she makes the book a delight to read. Whether approaching the topic from a senior executive perspective with a focus on what should be done in your organization or from an individual standpoint in terms of actions you could personally take, Connect the Dots is one for the ages."" —Rob Cross, Edward A Madden Professor, Global Leadership Babson CollegeTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Slime Factor Chapter 3: Sticky Rice Feels So Good Chapter 4: Building Bridges Chapter 5: At Home on the Range Chapter 6: Circles and Sleepers Chapter 7: Casting Your Net Chapter 8: Nurture and Nature Chapter 9: The Magnificent Seven Chapter 10: Leverage Your Assets Chapter 11: Changing Your Lead Chapter 12: In Conclusion Toolbox A Toolbox B Toolbox C About the Author
£31.30
Information Age Publishing Connect the Dots: How to Build, Nurture, and
Book SynopsisFeeling guilty about not networking enough? Stop! You can learn how to network effectively without attending networking events, collecting business cards, or getting a lot of LinkedIn followers. How? By learning how to Connect the Dots.Written by Inga Carboni, Ph.D., Connect the Dots is a fun, fast-paced, and fact-based book for working professionals seeking to take the next step in their careers. The truth is that networking is not about managing impressions or projecting your personal brand. Effective networkers build, nurture, and leverage relationships, real relationships built on genuine connection. When done correctly, networking isn’t sleazy or manipulative. Instead, it’s empowering — for you, for all the people you know, and for all the people they know.Connect the Dots: How to Build, Nurture, and Leverage Your Network to Achieve Your Personal and Professional Goals offers a combination of personal stories, business anecdotes, self-assessments, exercises, and concrete guidelines grounded in the latest scientific research. Connect the Dots focuses on developing your personal power and leadership skills by creating effective networks and networking effectively. This book is designed to benefit everyone, from young professionals to senior managers to human resource professionals to C-suite executives.Unleash the power of your network by learning how to connect the dots to make your network work for you.Trade ReviewIn Connect the Dots, Inga Carboni has accomplished an exceptional blend of findings housed in research with pragmatic insights that can be put into action immediately. The richness of her stories and examples will resonate with all as she makes the book a delight to read. Whether approaching the topic from a senior executive perspective with a focus on what should be done in your organization or from an individual standpoint in terms of actions you could personally take, Connect the Dots is one for the ages."" —Rob Cross, Edward A Madden Professor, Global Leadership Babson CollegeTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The Slime Factor Chapter 3: Sticky Rice Feels So Good Chapter 4: Building Bridges Chapter 5: At Home on the Range Chapter 6: Circles and Sleepers Chapter 7: Casting Your Net Chapter 8: Nurture and Nature Chapter 9: The Magnificent Seven Chapter 10: Leverage Your Assets Chapter 11: Changing Your Lead Chapter 12: In Conclusion Toolbox A Toolbox B Toolbox C About the Author
£61.75
University of South Carolina Press The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is
Book SynopsisAn accessible and important look at what is truly behind our digital outrageOn any given day, at any given hour, across the various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone is angry. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Reddit. 4Chan. In The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media is Making Us Angry Professor Jeff Rice addresses the increasingly critical question of why anger has become the dominant digital response on social media. He examines the theoretical and rhetorical explanations for the intense rage that prevails across social media platforms, and sheds new light on how our anger isn't merely a reaction against singular events, but generated out of subversive, aggregated beliefs and ideas. Captivating, accessible, and exceedingly important, The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry encourages readers to have the difficult conversations about what is truly behind their anger.
£76.50
University of South Carolina Press The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is
Book SynopsisAn accessible and important look at what is truly behind our digital outrageOn any given day, at any given hour, across the various platforms constituting what we call social media, someone is angry. Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Reddit. 4Chan. In The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media is Making Us Angry Professor Jeff Rice addresses the increasingly critical question of why anger has become the dominant digital response on social media. He examines the theoretical and rhetorical explanations for the intense rage that prevails across social media platforms, and sheds new light on how our anger isn't merely a reaction against singular events, but generated out of subversive, aggregated beliefs and ideas. Captivating, accessible, and exceedingly important, The Rhetoric of Outrage: Why Social Media Is Making Us Angry encourages readers to have the difficult conversations about what is truly behind their anger.
£24.61
University of South Carolina Press Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of
Book SynopsisA new framework for understanding how algorithms influenceWeb applications offer us conclusions about science. Twitter bots generate art. Machine-learning systems satirize politicians. We live in an era where a substantial share of our private and public communication is machinic. Modern computing machines cannot yet speak for themselves—although the capacities of AI are rapidly expanding—but they generate rhetorical energies as they give advice, entertain, and proffer insight, speaking to human concerns in more-than-human ways and guiding human action. In Influential Machines Miles C. Coleman looks beyond human communication to interrogate the ways in which the machines and algorithms in our lives make meaning and the implications of their special modes of communication. Using the varied examples of an anti-vax "vaccine calculator," two Twitterbots, and the computational performances of virtual assistants, Coleman asks what machines mean to us as social agents and whether humans are the appropriate reference for designing machine communication. Coleman goes beyond the front and back ends of computing to describe the "deep end" of computing, a site of ambient rhetoric that is essential for understanding how machines move in today's digital world.
£83.30
Plunkett Research, Ltd Plunkett's Games, Apps & Social Media Industry
Book SynopsisThree of the most exciting areas in the world of information technology have tremendous synergies and are closely connected in the worlds of information and entertainment: electronic games, mobile apps and social media. Competition continues to heat up as mergers and acquisitions create international mega-firms, and hundreds of millions of people connect worldwide via online gaming platforms and social media such as Facebook. As social media grows more global, it is also being incorporated in virtually all online activities, from business collaboration to online retailing. Games are growing in two channels at once: online and offline. While multi-player games online are vastly popular, game machine manufacturers such as Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo continue to introduce big breakthroughs in handsets that keep players excited, including the new move towards 3D. Meanwhile, apps are changing the shape of the mobile and wireless industry. This carefully researched book is a complete market research and business intelligence tool--everything you need to know about the business of games, apps and social media. The book includes our analysis of games, apps and social media industry trends; dozens of statistical tables; an industry glossary; a database of industry associations and professional organizations; and our in-depth profiles of more than 200 of the world's leading companies, both in the U.S. and abroad. You'll find a complete overview, industry analysis and market research report in one superb, value-priced package.Table of Contents How To Use This Book Chapter 1: Major Trends Affecting the Games, Apps & Social Media Industry 1) Introduction to the Games, Apps and Social Media Industry 2) Overview of the Electronic Games Industry 3) Overview of the Mobile Apps Industry 4) Overview of the Social Media Industry 5) Social Media Rakes in Global Online and Mobile Ad Revenues 6) Streaming Apps Take Over TVs 7) New Video Game Console Technologies and Features Boost Sales 8) Online (Cloud Gaming) & Mobile Games Compete with Consoles 9) Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality and 3-D Technologies Create Opportunities for the Tech Industry/Immersion Games to Grow 10) The Metaverse Attracts Investment 11) Fantasy Sports Post Growth, with 60 Million Players 12) eSports: Electronic Games Become Spectator Sports 13) Virtual Worlds Provide Revenue for Games Publishers 14) Global Mobile Apps Revenues Hit $167 Billion Yearly 15) Embedded LTE Wi-Fi and Onboard Apps Incorporated by Auto Makers in New Car Infotainment Systems 16) Gamification: Games Technology Boosts Education and Training 17) Sports Equipment and Social Media Converge 18) Digital Assistants Include Amazon's Echo and Google's Home/Alexa and Similar Software Power Third-Party Developers 19) The Future of Games, Apps & Social Media Chapter 2: Games, Apps & Social Media Industry Statistics Games, Apps & Social Media Industry Statistics and Market Size Overview Internet Usage Demographics, U.S.: 2021 Use of Different Online Platforms: 2022 Social Media Usage Demographics, U.S.: 2021 Home Broadband Adoption Demographics, U.S.: 2021 Smartphone Adoption Demographics, U.S.: 2021 Number of Business & Residential High Speed Internet Lines, U.S.: 2018-2023 Software Publishing Industry, U.S.: Estimated Revenue, Inventories & Expenses: 2017-2022 Software Publishing Industry, U.S.: Estimated Selected Expenses: 2017-2022 Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite): Estimated Sources of Revenue & Expenses, U.S.: 2018-2021 Internet Publishing & Broadcasting & Web Search Portals: Estimated Revenue & Expenses, U.S.: 2017-2022 Estimated U.S. Information & Entertainment Sector Revenues by NAICS Code: 2017-2022 Internet Access Technologies Compared Chapter 3: Games, Apps & Social Media Industry Contacts Addresses, Telephone Numbers and Internet Sites Chapter 4: THE GAMES, APPS & SOCIAL MEDIA 200: Who They Are and How They Were Chosen Index of Companies Within Industry Groups Alphabetical Index Index of U.S. Headquarters Location by State Index of Non-U.S. Headquarters Location by Country Individual Profiles on each of THE GAMES, APPS & SOCIAL MEDIA 200 Additional Indexes Index of Hot Spots for Advancement for Women/Minorities Index by Subsidiaries, Brand Names and Affiliations A Short Games, Apps & Social Media Industry Glossary
£297.00
Iter Press Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities –
Book SynopsisIn the humanities, the field of “social knowledge creation” has helped define how social media platforms and other collaborative spaces have shaped humanistic critique in the twenty-first century. The ability to access and organize information and people has been profoundly liberating in some online contexts, but social media also presents many issues which come to light in the often-overlapping domains of politics, media studies, and disinformation. While these countervailing influences are all around us, the essays collected in this volume represent a humanistic ethics of generosity, compassion, and care. Social knowledge creation refreshingly returns to humanist values, emphasizing that people matter more than networks, facts matter more than opinion, and ideas matter more than influence. As a result, the speed and scale of digital culture has challenged humanists from many disciplines to more clearly define the values of education, collaboration, and new knowledge in pursuit of human justice and equality. In short, online culture has presented a new opportunity to define how and why the humanities matter in the age of social media. Table of ContentsThe Influence of Social Media on the HumanitiesAaron Mauro Part 1The Page: Its Past and Future in Books of KnowledgeChristian Vandendorpe Digital Radio and Social Knowledge Creation in the HumanitiesJohn F. Barber Collocating Places and Words with TopoTextRanda El Khatib Open Source Interpretation Using Z-axis MapsAlex Christie, with the INKE and MVP Research Groups “Digital Zombies in the Academy”: At the Intersection of Digital Humanities and Digital PedagogyJuliette LevyPart 2Projects to Pedagogy: On the Social Infrastructure of Consortial Collaboration in Digital ScholarshipJacob Heil and Ben Daigle Rethinking Social Knowledge Creation in the Liberal Arts: The History and Future of Domain of One’s OwnMartha Burtis, Nigel Haarstad, Jess Reingold, Kris Shaffer, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris Waste at the Temple of Knowledge: A Personal Reflection on Writing, Technology, and the Student Public to ComeErin Rose GlassReassembling the Bacon: Crowdsourcing Historical Social Networks in the Redesign of Six Degrees of Francis BaconJohn R. Ladd Shaping New Models of Interaction in Open Access Repositories with Social MediaLuis Meneses, Alyssa Arbuckle, Hector Lopez, Belaid Moa, Richard Furuta, and Ray SiemensSocial Knowledge Creation in the Digital Humanities: Case StudiesCara Marta Messina, Sarah Connell, Julia Flanders, Caroline Klibanoff, and Sarah Payne Part 3Open Social Scholarship Annotated BibliographyRanda El Khatib, Lindsey Seatter, Tracey El Hajj, and Conrad Leibel, with Alyssa Arbuckle, Ray Siemens, Caroline Winter, and the ETCL and INKE Research Groups Contributors
£60.80
Harvard Educational Publishing Group Bullying & Cyberbullying: What Every Educator and
Book SynopsisRevised and updated to address shifts in the climate of bullying in schools and online, this timely work suggests anti-bullying approaches that are concrete, practical, and grounded in research. In this deeply insightful work, nationally renowned bullying expert Elizabeth Kandel Englander offers sensible perspectives on student social behavior and equips educators and parents with effective strategies to identify and address bullying. This second edition of Bullying and Cyberbullying reveals how enormous social changes, increased digital connections, and a global pandemic have indelibly altered the psychological world of children—and in turn shaped their peer interactions. Englander notes that effective school bullying prevention and intervention is rooted in a solid understanding of child development, social structures in schools, and the connections between online behavior and in-school socializing. Building on continuing research on smartphone and social media usage, online privacy, and sexting and other risky behaviors, this updated edition prepares educators and parents to identify gateway behaviors, anticipate bias-based bullying, and respond to aggression and harassment. Englander offers sage advice for promoting resilience, strong friendships, and healthy technology use, among other prosocial behaviors that can avert bullying among students. This much-needed work provides an accessible framework for understanding and responding effectively to bullying and offers suggestions for collaboration between educators and parents.Trade Review“Englander's second edition brings a wealth of new knowledge to educators and parents who seek to combat bullying and cyberbullying. My favorite chapters tackle the role of bystanders—and how we can empower them—and the best ways to come alongside parents in supporting their children. Her tone is kind, motivating, and helpful; she realizes these problems cannot be solved easily, but that we can make measurable headway through a variety of specific, actionable strategies.”—Sameer Hinduja, professor, Florida Atlantic University and codirector, Cyberbullying Research Center“Englander lays out the many complex angles to bullying and cyberbullying and makes them easily understood. It is an essential book for parents, educators, and mental health clinicians as well. Englander has deeply influenced my approach to how I assess and treat my patients (and their families) throughout their childhood and teenage years.”—Clifford Sussman, MD, child and adolescent psychiatrist and internet and video game addiction specialist
£30.36
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Entrepreneurial Process and Social Networks: A
Book SynopsisEntrepreneurship is undoubtedly a social process and creating a firm requires both the mobilisation of social networks and the use of social capital. This book addresses the gap that exists between the need to take these factors into consideration and the understanding of how network relationships are developed and transformed across the venturing process.Expert contributions from key scholars in the field illustrate how social networks evolve across entrepreneurial stages, using studies from different regions across the world. Offering a comprehensive understanding, they emphasize the role of formal networks created inside professions and firms. Also examined is the impact of context including both family and internationally variable institutions that can help entrepreneurs to access resources and competencies useful for their projects. The book concludes by emphasizing the various research challenges: which theories are useful for our endeavors and which new methods can be used to understand the dynamics of the venturing process?Dynamic and eminently practical, this book will be invaluable to scholars and students studying the entrepreneurial process and the impact of social networks. It will also prove a useful tool in aiding entrepreneurs to optimize the development of their networks and better manage their entrepreneurial processes.Contributors include: L. Aaboen, M.A. Abebe, A.R. Anderson, M. Brettel, D. Chabaud, H. Chebbi, M. de Beer, S. Drakopoulou Dodd, A. Fayolle, R.T. Harrison, F.M. Hill, S.L. Jack, W. Jansen, W. Lamine, H. Lawton-Smith, C. Lechner, C.M. Leitch, C. Leyronas, F. Lind, S. Loup, A.B.R. Lwango, R. Mauer, S. Mian, G. Mollenhorst, J. Ngijol, S. Qureshi, T. Redd, V. Schutjens, M. Virahsawmy, S. WuTrade Review'This rich collection of articles reminds us that network research in entrepreneurship must push boundaries. Fayolle, Jack, Lamine and Chabaud have selected studies emphasizing network processes of creation and change. They nudge us beyond social networks to consider business networks; to study relationship coordination rather than just cooperation. They help us ''try-on'' new theoretical lenses and they provide insight to novel research contexts such as the Middle East and Africa. This book moves us toward topics that warrant more attention.' --Nicole Coviello, Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Waterloo, CanadaTable of ContentsContents: Introduction Alain Fayolle, Sarah Jack, Wadid Lamine and Didier Chabaud PART I THE EVOLUTION OF NETWORKS ACROSS ENTREPRENEURIAL STAGES 1. Entrepreneurial Network Composition and the Venture Creation Process: An Empirical Investigation Tammi C. Redd, Michael A. Abebe and Sibin Wu 2. Dynamic Social Networks of Entrepreneurs: Five Years of Change in the Networks of Dutch Entrepreneurs Marianne de Beer, Gerald Mollenhorst and Veronique A.J.M. Schutjens 3. Entrepreneur’s Social Networks and Formation of Business Opportunities: An Exploratory Study Didier Chabaud and Joseph Ngijol 4. Start-ups Repositioning in Business Networks Lise Aaboen and Frida Lind PART II FORMAL NETWORKS: A NEW RESEARCH AGENDA? 5. Business and Professional Networks: Scope and Outcomes in Oxfordshire Helen Lawton-Smith and Saverio Romeo 6. Women Entrepreneurs and the Process of Networking as Social Exchange Claire M. Leitch, Richard T. Harrison and Frances M. Hill 7. Cooperation vs. Coordination Relations in SME’s Network: A New View of Collective Strategy Dynamics Christophe Leyronas and Stéphanie Loup PART III CONTEXT: A BENIGN NEGLECT? 8. The Competitiveness of Entrepreneurial Firms from a Network Perspective Christian Lechner 9. The Role of Family Members In Entrepreneurial Networks: Beyond the Boundaries of the Family Firm Alistair R. Anderson, Sarah L. Jack and Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd 10. Social Network Structures of Nascent Entrepreneurs: An Exploratory Study of Advisor Networks in MENA Countries Sarfraz A. Mian and Shahid Qureshi 11. Ubuntu in Family Businesses: A Case in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Albert B.R. Lwango PART IV DEBATES AND PERSPECTIVES: THEORETICAL CHALLENGES 12. Entrepreneurial Mingling Secrets: Investigating the Performance Impact of Network Structure for Control-based Entrepreneurship using Agent-based Simulation Willem Jansen, René Mauer and Malte Brettel 13. Actor- Network Theory and the Entrepreneurial Process Wadid Lamine, Alain Fayolle and Hela Chebbi Index
£131.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Digital Sociology
Book SynopsisExploring the social implications of digital transformation, as well as demonstrating how we might use digital transformation to further sociological knowledge, this incisive Handbook provides an extensive overview of cutting-edge research on the digital turn of modern society.Bringing together contributions from more than 60 experts spanning a wide range of disciplines, Jan Skopek explores how digital technologies inextricably permeate the ways we go about our everyday lives, from how we seek information and carry out economic transactions to how we construct our identities and pursue and maintain social relationships. Chapters investigate timely issues related to social theory and social research in the digital age, including the study of online behaviour, digital social inequalities, and the micro- and macro-level consequences of digital technological change. Covering state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative research methodologies in digital sociology, this Research Handbook serves as a comprehensive resource for teaching and research in a continually developing field. Cross-disciplinary in scope, this dynamic Research Handbook will be essential reading for a diverse audience of academics, researchers, students, and practitioners, particularly in the fields of sociology, demography, computer and information sciences, economics, business, and psychology.Trade Review‘This Handbook provides a rich and wide range of research using digital tools and approaches. The chapters cover a variety of domains and provide an excellent overview of the state of the art in the field.’ -- Ralph Schroeder, University of Oxford, UK‘As new digital technologies emerge and are taken into social worlds, so too, digital sociology is dynamic, changing over time. This comprehensive Handbook brings together a wide array of researchers, not only from sociology but also from cognate research areas, to ponder and work through how digital sociology might be practised today. There is much in this book to awaken the interest of academics and students; both those who are new to digital sociology and those looking to expand their horizons.’ -- Deborah Lupton, University of New South Wales, AustraliaTable of ContentsContents: PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction and overview to the Research Handbook on Digital Sociology 2 Jan Skopek 2 Social theory and the internet in everyday life 23 Pu Yan PART II RESEARCHING THE DIGITAL SOCIETY 3 Digital and computational demography 47 Ridhi Kashyap and R. Gordon Rinderknecht, with Aliakbar Akbaritabar, Diego Alburez-Gutierrez, Sofia Gil-Clavel, André Grow, Jisu Kim, Douglas R. Leasure, Sophie Lohmann, Daniela V. Negraia, Daniela Perrotta, Francesco Rampazzo, Chia-Jung Tsai, Mark D. Verhagen, Emilio Zagheni, and Xinyi Zhao 4 Digital technologies and the future of social surveys 86 Marcel Das and Tom Emery 5 Mobile devices and the collection of social research data 100 Bella Struminskaya and Florian Keusch 6 Unlocking big data: at the crossroads of computer science and the social sciences 114 Oliver Posegga 7 Regression and machine learning 129 Lukas Erhard and Raphael Heiberger 8 Investigating social phenomena with agent-based models 145 Pablo Lucas and Thomas Feliciani 9 Inclusive digital focus groups: lessons from working with citizens with limited digital literacies 160 Elinor Carmi, Eleanor Lockley, and Simeon Yates PART III ANALYSING DIGITAL LIVES AND ONLINE INTERACTION 10 Social networking site use in professional contexts 178 Christine Anderl, Lea Baumann, and Sonja Utz 11 Online dating and relationship formation 194 Maureen Coyle and Cassandra Alexopoulos 12 Studying mate choice using digital trace data from online dating 210 Jan Skopek 13 Testing sociological theories with digital trace data from online markets 241 Wojtek Przepiorka 14 Using YouTube data for social science research 258 Johannes Breuer, Julian Kohne, and M. Rohangis Mohseni 15 Automated image analysis for studying online behaviour 278 Carsten Schwemmer, Saïd Unger, and Raphael Heiberger PART IV DIGITAL PARTICIPATION AND INEQUALITY 16 Social disparities in adolescents’ educational ICT use at home: how digital and educational inequalities interact 293 Birgit Becker 17 The early roots of the digital divide: socioeconomic inequality in children’s ICT literacy from primary to secondary schooling 307 Giampiero Passaretta and Carlos J. Gil-Hernández 18 Digital inequalities and adolescent mental health: the role of socioeconomic background, gender, and national context 328 Pablo Gracia, Melissa Bohnert, and Seyma Celik 19 The gender gap in digital skills in cross-national perspective 348 José-Luis Martínez-Cantos PART V CONSEQUENCES OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE 20 Doing family in the digital age 365 Claudia Zerle-Elsäßer, Alexandra N. Langmeyer, Thorsten Naab, and Stephan Heuberger 21 The mental health cost of swiping: is dating app use linked to greater stress and depressive symptoms? 379 Gina Potarca and Julia Sauter 22 Social media and well-being at work, at home, and in-between: a review 398 Julius Klingelhoefer and Adrian Meier 23 The digital transition of the economy and its consequences for the labour market 419 Werner Eichhorst and Gemma Scalise 24 Further training in the context of the digital transformation 433 Thomas Kruppe and Julia Lang 25 Digital campaigning: how digital media change the work of parties and campaign organizations and impact elections Research handbook on digital sociology 446 Andreas Jungherr Index
£210.00
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Handbook on Tourism and Social Media
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive Handbook offers an overview of current research on the use of social media within the tourism industry, investigating a range of social media practices and proposing strategies to address key challenges faced by tourist destinations and operators. International contributors analyse both conceptual and practical social media topics, addressing cutting-edge social media issues in destination management and marketing. Drawing on empirical case studies and examples, chapters explore dark tourism, gastro-tourism, travel blogs, electronic word-of-mouth, sentiment analysis and a variety of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The Handbook also defines central social media concepts and explores the impact they have on the success of tourist destinations, setting the stage for a better understanding of the relationship between social media and tourism. Through an examination of current trends in social media, as well as future trajectories, it provides critical insights for the successful development and implementation of social media marketing strategies. This Handbook will be a critical read for scholars and students of geography and business management, with a specific interest in tourism and hospitality management. Its practical considerations will also be beneficial for planners, policy makers, managers and marketers in the tourism industry.Trade Review‘This Handbook on Tourism and Social Media is a valuable resource and must-read for researchers and students of the tourism and hospitality industry and destination marketers and managers. This comprehensive work explores the key social media issues in tourism and allows the reader to explore strategies for tackling current and future challenges in the field.’ -- Haywantee Ramkissoon, University of Derby, UK‘A must-read! This Handbook offers a unique collection of academic and industry practitioner-based insights on the critical relationship between tourism and social media. The first of its kind providing a broad global reach and detailed accounting of the complex nature of social media use in destination marketing. The authors have masterfully assembled both theoretical underpinnings and practical applications of key social media concepts that are easily understood and implemented. The concise and clearly written industry expert case studies are a terrific complement to the scholarly articles establishing the conceptual framework to learn from. Great for anyone interested in a dynamic career in destination marketing and tourism management.’ -- Thomas A. Maier, University of San Francisco, USTable of ContentsContents: 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Tourism and Social Media 1 Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav and Dogan Gursoy PART I CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR AND SOCIAL MEDIA 2 Efficacy of social media in influencing consumer adoption intention for tourism decisions 7 Piyush Pandey 3 Electronic information search and destination satisfaction: a comparison of website and social media pre-trip planning 22 Susan L. Slocum and Seungwon (Shawn) Lee PART II DESTINATION AND DMOs 4 Social media adoption among DMOs: a systematic review of academic research 38 Mani Shah Alizadegan and Yulin Liu 5 Understanding online heritage destination image through user-generated content 53 Ozan Atsiz, Mert Ogretmenoglu and Orhan Akova 6 Online tourism communication in destination image formation 69 Sarasadat Makian 7 Impact of social media-based user-generated content on online reputation of tourist destinations 82 Komal Kapoor 8 DMOs and social media: challenges and strategies to manage them 97 Mohamed E.A. Mohamed and Mahmoud M. Hewedi 9 Online destination image and user-generated content 111 Heather Skinner 10 Social media and tourists’ behaviors: post-COVID-19 126 Salman Majeed and Haywantee Ramkissoon 11 Smart tourism destinations and social media analysis 140 Gozde Turktarhan and Olgun Cicek PART III MARKETING STRATEGIES, CHANNELS, FORMATS 12 The impact of social media and information technology on service quality and guest satisfaction in the hospitality industry 149 Elangkovan Narayanan 13 Leveraging social media to enhance customer value in tourism and hospitality 161 Robert Gutounig, Birgit Phillips, Sonja Radkohl, Sandra Macher, Karina Schaffer and Daniel Binder 14 Social media relationship marketing for tourism: key antecedents and outcomes 174 Si Shi 15 The transformative role of social media in the business-to-business tourism distribution channel 189 Kathryn Hayat 16 How social media transformed tourism marketing: a case study of Lund, Sweden 198 Olga Rauhut Kompaniets PART IV TRAVEL BLOGS, USER-GENERATED CONTENT, REVIEWS AND E-WOM 17 Online hospitality and the collaborative paradigm of communication: a conceptual understanding of collaborative platform peer-to-peer interaction experiences 213 André F. Durão and Xander Lub 18 Opinion mining or sentiment analysis of online reviews in tourism 228 Evrim Çeltek 19 Digital communication tools and tourism engagement: instant CRM strategies through instant messaging apps 243 Letizia Lo Presti, Giulio Maggiore and Vittoria Marino 20 Digitization of word-of-mouth 257 Kulvinder Kaur Batth 21 Digital content marketing practices and implementation in the tourism industry 266 Pramita Gurjar, Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav and K.S. Thakur 22 The influence of e-WOM via social media platforms on e-Reputation and the selection of tourist destinations 276 Prerana Baber, Robert L. Williams Jr and Helena A. Williams 23 Do you believe? Online reviews and dark tourism: a sentiment analysis approach 287 Brent McKenzie 24 Exploring how travel blogs influence Chinese tourists to visit Japan: a netnographic study of Chinese tourists’ travel blogs 301 Kaede Sano and João Romão 25 Exploring antecedents of electronic word-of-mouth in tourism: a case of Tripadvisor 322 Farah S. Choudhary and Alka Sharma PART V SOCIAL MEDIA AND DECISION-MAKING 26 Impacts of social media on travelers’ decision-making process 338 Hasan Kilic, Ali Ozturen, Cathrine Banga and Ruth Bamidele 27 Impact of social media on millennials’ destination choice behavior: a study of Delhi NCR 354 Pramendra Singh and Heena Chauhan 28 Travel influencers and influencer marketing in tourism 365 Kubra Asan and Medet Yolal PART VI SOCIAL MEDIA AND FOOD 29 Gastronomy on Twitter: drawing representations from a food event 382 Francesc Fusté-Forné and Pere Masip 30 Components of gastro-tourists’ experiences in culinary destinations: evidence from sharing economy platforms 395 Ibrahim Cifci and Ozan Atsiz 31 The effects of social media on the food preferences of Generation Z within the scope of gastronomy tourism 412 Özlem Altun, Mehmet Necati Cizrelioğullari and Mehmet Veysi Babayiğit 32 Uncovering food experience from social media 426 Kuan-Huei Lee, Zhengkui Wang and Nur Syazreema Binte Sazari 33 Sharing photos of food traveler experiences: a case study of foodstagramming 437 Sevinc Goktepe, Merve Aydogan Cifci and Mehmet Altug Sahin PART VII BUSINESS PERFORMANCE-RELATED CHALLENGES 34 The effect of social media on business performance: a case study of a Turkish travel agency 452 Oya Yildirim 35 Social media and tourism development in Africa: an empirical investigation 464 Sheereen Fauzel and Verena Tandrayen 36 Impact of social media on tourism, hospitality and events 475 Gulcin Bilgin Turna Index
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Social Media and Society
Book SynopsisAs social media scholarship matures, early optimism has been replaced by a more complex and arguably gloomier picture of the role of digital media platforms in our lives. This incisive Research Handbook showcases the academic community’s responses to key societal challenges posed by evolving social media ecologies.Multidisciplinary and international in outlook, leading contributors present wide-ranging and balanced coverage of social media research, including non-Western settings and the Global South. Chapters explore emerging interdisciplinary research methods which support the increasingly sophisticated, theoretical understanding in the field. They also debate the complex ethical issues confronting social media scholars today.Students and early career researchers in communications, digital media and sociology will find this a highly valuable book. Due to its inclusion of diverse contexts and locales, this book will also be of interest to experienced researchers and academics.Trade Review‘Taking a broad approach to social media scholarship, this book offers timely, comprehensive, and internationally diverse perspectives on how social media affects our cultural, political, and social lives. It is a milestone for our theoretical and methodological understanding of social media and an indispensable resource for students and scholars across the globe.’ -- Jörg Matthes, University of Vienna, Austria‘A perpetual challenge with social media research has been to bring together work on methods, impacts and communicative interactions in a single volume. Skoric and Pang perform this task admirably with this far reaching handbook which showcases work by scholars from many different countries and continents. This is sure to be a widely used collection in a booming research field.’ -- Terry Flew, The University of Sydney, Australia‘This insightful handbook effectively encapsulates many of the important issues and research areas related to social media. I would recommend this book as a perfect reference for students who are new to this field and an excellent addition to our growing library of social media research.' -- Muneo Kaigo, University of Tsukuba, JapanTable of ContentsContents: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Social Media and Society: social media scholarship reaches maturity xvii Marko M. Skoric and Natalie Pang PART I SEXUALITY, GENDER AND FAMILY 1 Social media and performative parenting 2 Sun Sun Lim and Yang Wang 2 Factors predicting parental mediation in adolescents’ social media use 12 Liang Chen and Xiaoming Liu 3 Visible, controlled, and persistent: an affordances approach to understanding social media for transnational parenting among migrant mothers 27 Barui K. Waruwu 4 Mapping technology-facilitated sexual violence in Singapore 42 Shivani Gupta, Francis Luis Medado Torres, Sharon Yvette Xiomara Rosamor ’n Doen, Jungup Lee, Bimlesh Wadhwa and Michelle Ho PART II CULTURE AND POLITICS 5 Religious influencers and socially mediated cultural politics 58 Annisa R. Beta 6 The populist rhetoric of crowdfunding on digital media 70 Roei Davidson 7 Social media and crisis research 84 Patric R. Spence and Xialing Lin 8 Social media and reconciliation in post-conflict societies 98 Juma Kasadha 9 Consumers, commons, collectives: K-pop’s digital corps de ballet 112 Liew Kai Khiun and Sun Meicheng PART III CIVICS AND POLITICS 10 Monitoring and reputation: principal–agent relationships and the role of social media in political representation 125 Andrea Ceron 11 Political implications of disconnective practices on social media: unfriending, unfollowing, and blocking 135 Qinfeng Zhu 12 Teflonic social media behavior: why users refrain from participating in political discussions and why it matters 148 Márton Bene, Tamás Tóth and Manuel Goyanes 13 The affective resonance of norm-violation rhetoric in social media 161 W. Russell Neuman, George E. Marcus and Michael B. MacKuen 14 Socio-technical and cultural threats to social movements in the Global South: vignettes from Indonesia 181 Abdul Rohman 15 Strategic public participation in the digital age: the case of the Austrian ‘Green Book’ 194 Noella Edelmann, Valerie Albrecht and Peter Parycek PART IV RESEARCH METHODS AND PEDAGOGIES 16 Big data analytical methods 211 Hai Liang 17 Public opinion analytics with social media 224 Kokil Jaidka 18 Ethnographic approaches to digital folklore 239 Gabriele de Seta 19 Looking back on the scroll back: reflections on the social media scroll back method 254 Claire Moran, Elianne Renaud, Taylor Annabell, Fan Yang and Brady Robards 20 A critical review of media and communications scholarship on messaging apps 269 Emma Baulch, Amelia Johns and Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández 21 How can we take advantage of students’ social media skills in the classroom? An international exploration 286 Maria-Jose Masanet and Carlos A. Scolari Index 302
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El enemigo conoce el sistema / The Enemy Knows
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Cambridge University Press Cooperating Factions
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Cambridge University Press Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek
Book SynopsisAn extensively revised and expanded third edition of the successful textbook on analysis and visualization of social networks integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek). The main structural concepts and their applications in social research are introduced with exercises. Pajek software and datasets are available, so readers can learn network analysis through application and case studies. In the end readers will have the knowledge, skills, and tools to apply social network analysis across different disciplines. A fundamental redesign of the menu structure and the capability to analyze much larger networks required a new edition. This edition presents several new operations including community detection, generalized main paths searches, new network indices, advanced visualization approaches, and instructions for installing Pajek under MacOSX. This third edition is up-to-date with Pajek version 5 and it introduces PajekXXL for very Table of ContentsPart I. Fundamentals: 1. Looking for social structure; 2. Attributes and relations; Part II. Cohesion: 3. Cohesive subgroups; 4. Sentiments and friendship; 5. Affiliations; Part III. Brokerage: 6. Center and periphery; 7. Brokers and bridges; 8. Diffusion; Part IV. Ranking: 9. Prestige; 10. Ranking; 11. Genealogies and citations; Part V. Roles: 12. Blockmodels; 13. Random graph models.
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Random House Australia The Extraordinary Life of Pikelet
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MIT Press Ltd This Is Why We Cant Have Nice Things Mapping the
Book SynopsisWhy the internet troll problem is actually a culture problem: how online trolling fits comfortably within today’s media landscape. Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing grief-stricken friends and family; they use unabashedly racist language and images. They take pleasure in ruining a complete stranger’s day and find amusement in their victim’s anguish. In short, trolling is the obstacle to a kinder, gentler Internet. To quote a famous Internet meme, trolling is why we can’t have nice things online. Or at least that’s what we have been led to believe. In this provocative book, Whitney Phillips argues that trolling, widely condemned as obscene and deviant, actually fits comfortably within the contemporary media lands
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HarperCollins Focus Going Social Excite Customers Generate Buzz and
Book Synopsis If you’re not social, it’s like you’re not even there. That’s how critical social media marketing has become. Businesses everywhere are struggling to adapt, but transitioning from traditional marketing to online engagement is fraught with questions, such as: How much is a Facebook “like” worth? How can you effectively engage online influencers? What are the best dashboards for monitoring multiple social channels simutaneously? How do you keep it all going around the clock? For more than a decade, author Jeremy Goldman has helped companies inject “social” into their processes. In Going Social, he explains the ins-and-outs of platforms such as Facebook,Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, Instagram, Pinterest, and others—and shows readers how to: • FormTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Social Marketing: Even More Important Than You Think 2. Devising Your Strategy and Getting Started 3. Engagement 101: Determine Your Voice and Personality 4. How to Develop Content That Promotes Engagement 5. Become Truly Customer-Centric—and Reap the Advantages 6. How to Avoid Pitfalls, Deal with Crises, and Keep Your Brand’s Reputation Intact 7. How to Staff Your Social Team and Organize for More Effective Engagement 8. Tools for Producing More Relevant, Targeted Engagement 9. How to Identify Influencers, Work with VIPs, and Grow Word of Mouth Substantially 10. How to Build Strong Relationships with Bloggers and Work with Online Personalities 11. Increase Engagement by Turning Your Employees into Marketers 12. How to Engage with ROI in Mind 13. Going Social in Real Life 14. Final Word Notes Index
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Barcharts, Inc Social Media Marketing A Quickstudy Laminated
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Social Media Marketing Workbook: How to Use
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power
Book SynopsisBy now it's clear that whether you're promoting a business, a product, or yourself, social media is near the top of what determines your success or failure. And there are countless pundits, authors, and consultants eager to advise you.But there’s no one quite like Guy Kawasaki, the legendary former chief evangelist for Apple and one of the pioneers of business blogging, tweeting, Facebooking, Tumbling, and much, much more. Now Guy has teamed up with Peg Fitzpatrick, who he says is the best social-media person he’s ever met, to offer The Art of Social Media—the one essential guide you need to get the most bang for your time, effort, and money.With over one hundred practical tips, tricks, and insights, Guy and Peg present a bottom-up strategy to produce a focused, thorough, and compelling presence on the most popular social-media platforms. They guide you through steps to build your foundation, amass your digital assets, optimize your profile, attract more followers, and effectively integrate social media and blogging.For beginners overwhelmed by too many choices as well as seasoned professionals eager to improve their game, The Art of Social Media is full of tactics that have been proven to work in the real world. Or as Guy puts it, “great stuff, no fluff.”
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