Reg No: HS2018/15

 

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Faculty Board of Arts and Social Sciences
Media and Communication Studies

Course Reading

Social Media & Social Theory

Valid from spring semester 2018

 

Course Code: MKGA92
Course Title: Social Media & Social Theory
Sociala medier och samhällsteorier
Credits: 7.5
Degree Level: Bachelor

Books
Lindgren, Simon. Digital media and society. London: Sage, 2017. Pages: 328.

Twenge, Jean M. iGen: Why today’s super-connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy – and completely unprepared for adulthood – and what that means for the rest of us. New York: Atria Books, 2017. Pages: 352.

Van Dijck, J. (2013). Culture of connectivity. A critical history of social media. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pages: 240.

Articles and book chapters
Ytterligare kurslitteratur om 50-100 sidor tillkommer och tillhandahålls av kursansvarig.

Baym, N. (2010). Personal connections in the digital age. Cambridge: Polity Press. Ch.5, pp. 99-121.

boyd, d. & Ellison, N. B. (2007). "Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship". Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 13(1), 210-230.

Carpentier, N. (2012). "The concept of participation. If they have access and interact, do they really participate?". Revista Fronteiras. 14(2), 164-177.

David, G., & Cambre, C. (2016). "Screened intimacies: Tinder and the swipe logic". Social Media+Society. 2(2). 1-11.

Gerbaudo, Paulo. (2014). "The persistence of collectivity in digital protest". Information, Communication & Society. 17(2), 264-268.

Gillespie, T.L. (2010). "The politics of platforms". New Media & Society. 12(3), 347-364.

Heidemann, J., Klier, M., & Probst, F. (2012). "Online social networks: A survey of a global phenomenon". Computer Networks. 56(18), 3866-3878.

Meyrowitz, J. (1986). No sense of place: The impact of electronic media on social behavior. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Ch. 6, pp. 93-114.

Milan, Stefania (2015). "When algorithms shape collective action: Social media and the dynamics of cloud protesting ". Social Media + Society. 1(2), 1-10.

Miller, V. (2008). "New media, networking and phatic culture". Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies. 14(4), 387-400.


Reference Literature

Books
Fuchs, C. (2014). Social media. A critical introduction. London: SAGE . Pages: 304.

Turkle, S. (2015). Reclaiming conversation: The power of talk in a digital age. London: Penguin.

Articles and book chapters
Comunello, F. & Anzera, G. (2012). "Will the revolution be tweeted? A conceptual framework for understanding the social media and the Arab Spring". Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations. 23(4), 453-470.

Gerlitz, C. & Helmond, A. (2013) . "The like economy: Social buttons and the data-intensive web". New Media & Society. 15(8), 1348-1365.

Hawn, C. (2009). "Take two aspirin and tweet me in the morning: how Twitter, Facebook, and other social media are reshaping health care". Health affairs. 28(2), 361-368.

Kietzmann, J. H., Hermkens, K., McCarthy, I. P. & Silvestre, B. S. (2011). "Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media". Business horizons. 54(3), 241-251.

Loader, B. D. & Mercea, D. (2011). "Networking democracy? Social media innovations and participatory politics". Information, Communication & Society. 14(6), 757-769.

Marche, S. (2012). "Is Facebook making us lonely?". The Atlantic, (May). https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/308930/.

Vaidhyanathan, S. (2010). "Our digitally undying memories". The Chronicle of Higher Education, (31 January). http://www.chronicle.com/article/Our-Digitally-Undying-Memories/63747/.

 

Approved by the Faculty Board of Arts and Social Sciences, 27 February 2018