Social Media Freaks by Dustin Kidd, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core ofSocial Media Freaksis the question: Does social media reproduce inequalities or is it a tool for subverting them?Social Media Freakspresents a virtual ethnography of social media, focusing on issues of identity and inequality along five dimensions-race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. It presents original and secondary findings, while also utilizing social theory to explain the dynamics of social media. It teaches readers how to engage social media as a tool for social activism while also examining the limits of social media's value in the quest for social change. | Social Media Freaks by Dustin Kidd, Paperback | Indigo Chapters