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Research Handbook on Social Media and Society
As social media scholarship matures, early optimism has been replaced by a more complex and arguably gloomier picture of the role of digital media platforms in our lives.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.
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As social media scholarship matures, early optimism has been replaced by a more complex and arguably gloomier picture of the role of digital media platforms in our lives.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.
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.
Critical Acclaim
‘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 Research 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, Japan
– 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 Research 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, Japan
Contributors
Contributors include: Valerie Albrecht, Taylor Annabell, Emma Baulch, Márton Bene, Annisa R. Beta, Andrea Ceron, Liang Chen, Roei Davidson, Noella Edelmann, Manuel Goyanes, Shivani Gupta, Michelle Ho, Kokil Jaidka, Amelia Johns, Liew Kai Khiun, Juma Kasadha, Jungup Lee, Hai Liang, Sun Sun Lim, Xialing Lin, Xiaoming Liu, Michael B. MacKuen, George E. Marcus, Maria-Jose Masanet, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Francis Luis Medado Torres, Sun Meicheng, Claire Moran, Sharon Yvette Xiomara Rosamor 'n Doen, W. Russell Neuman, Peter Parycek, Elianne Renaud, Brady Robards, Abdul Rohman, Carlos A. Scolari, Gabriele de Seta, Patric R. Spence, Tamás Tóth, Bimlesh Wadhwa, Yang Wang, Barui K. Waruwu, Fan Yang, Qinfeng Zhu
