Media and Social Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Media and Social Life write by Mary Beth Oliver. This book was released on 2014-03-26. Media and Social Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our use of media touches on almost all aspects of our social lives, be they friendships, parent-child relationships, emotional lives, or social stereotypes. How we understand ourselves and others is now largely dependent on how we perceive ourselves and others in media, how we interact with one another through mediated channels, and how we share, construct, and understand social issues via our mediated lives. This volume highlights cutting edge scholarship from preeminent scholars in media psychology that examines how media intersect with our social lives in three broad areas: media and the self; media and relationships; and social life in emerging media. The scholars in this volume not only provide insightful and up-to-date examinations of theorizing and research that informs our current understanding of the role of media in our social lives, but they also detail provocative and valuable roadmaps that will form that basis of future scholarship in this crucially important and rapidly evolving media landscape.
Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media
Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media write by David Toews. This book was released on 2018-02-15. Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Digital technology has vastly broadened and complexified social life, levelling opportunities for communication and producing a new awareness of the importance of diversity of social relations, as well as of life on the planet. This book explores the ways in which social media, by encouraging human curiosity and sociability in relation to these developments, has highlighted for users their own nature as social beings who have discovered new ways to get along with each other, as well as new challenges. The complexity of networks on social media has created new kinds of conflicts, and new ways to mediate older kinds of conflicts, that have resulted in a demand for new forms of political participation, thus reinvigorating political activity, without extending the practice of ‘politics as usual’. However, with concerns for the planet in the back- ground, a tendency for elites and ordinary people alike to want to see a political solution to every problem in social life has become an unsustainable and troubling trend. This book argues that enthusiasms for social media can be tempered in a helpful manner through an engagement with studies of social media in relation to understandings of the history of modern social life provided by sources in classical and contemporary sociology and political theory. Social media makes possible new sociable opportunities and multiple publics, but at the same time represents important continuities with modern social life of earlier times, such as the respect in which it works to limit political action within the boundaries of a generalized public, thus constraining demagoguery and challenging the arrogance of elites who seek to impose certain forms of political life. Engaging with the work of Deleuze, Tarde, Simmel, Lazzarato, Latour, Harman, Heidegger, Arendt, Archer, Wellman, Bergson and others, Social Life and Political Life in the Era of Digital Media advances a new understanding of modernity offered by social media, re-establishing the autonomy of social life over and against political life and re-articulating the relationship between the social and political. As such, it will appeal to scholars of social and political theory and cultural and media studies.
Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life
Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life write by Mary Chayko. This book was released on 2017-12-07. Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book brings together knowledge from the many literatures in which the author has been immersed (sociology, communication, media and technology studies) to examine social life that is mediated by various digital technologies: the Internet, social media, and mobile devices.
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life write by Katherine Ormerod. This book was released on 2018-09-10. Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. **FREE SAMPLER** 'This book is a call to arms from the eye of the storm' - Emma Gannon, author of The Multi Hyphen Method Do you ever obsess about your body? Do you lie awake at night, fretting about the state of your career? Does everyone else's life seem better than yours? Does it feel as if you'll never be good enough? Get a first glimpse of Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life with this exclusive free sampler, and learn how to tackle head on the pressure cooker of comparison and unreachable levels of perfection that social media has created in our modern world. In this book, Katherine Ormerod meets the experts involved in curating, building and combating the most addictive digital force humankind has ever created. From global influencers - who collectively have over 10 million followers - to clinical psychologists, plastic surgeons and professors, Katherine uncovers how our relationship with social media has rewired our behavioural patterns, destroyed our confidence and shattered our attention spans. Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life is a call to arms that will provide you with the knowledge, tactics and weaponry you need to find a more healthy way to consume social media and reclaim your happiness.
Media and Social Life
Media and Social Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Media and Social Life write by Mary Beth Oliver. This book was released on 2014-03-26. Media and Social Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Our use of media touches on almost all aspects of our social lives, be they friendships, parent-child relationships, emotional lives, or social stereotypes. How we understand ourselves and others is now largely dependent on how we perceive ourselves and others in media, how we interact with one another through mediated channels, and how we share, construct, and understand social issues via our mediated lives. This volume highlights cutting edge scholarship from preeminent scholars in media psychology that examines how media intersect with our social lives in three broad areas: media and the self; media and relationships; and social life in emerging media. The scholars in this volume not only provide insightful and up-to-date examinations of theorizing and research that informs our current understanding of the role of media in our social lives, but they also detail provocative and valuable roadmaps that will form that basis of future scholarship in this crucially important and rapidly evolving media landscape.
