| Description |
1 online resource (xxxvii, 285 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 50
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Popular culture and philosophy ; v. 50.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A reply to facebook critics / D.E. Wittkower -- Who uses facebook and why? / Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Sebastián Valenzuela -- Privacy virus / James Grimmelmann -- It's like talking to a wall / Graham Meikle -- Ian became a fan of Marshal McLuhan on facebook and suggested you become a fan too / Ian Bogost -- With friends like these, who needs enemies? / Elizabeth Losh -- Profile picture, right here, right now / Jeremy Sarachan -- You can't front on facebook / Mimi Marinucci -- Why I am not a friend / Mariam Thalos -- Playing around with identity / Tamara Wandel and Anthony Beavers -- Spectacle 2.0? / Rune Vejby and D.E. Wittkower -- Why can't we be virtual friends? / Craig Condella -- Friendship that makes no demands / Matthew Tedesco -- Care ethics, friendship, and facebook / Maurice Hamington -- What are friends for? / Chris Bloor -- Dear facebook / Adam Briggle -- Gossip and the evolution of facebook / Margaret A. Cuonzo -- Facebook as an excess of seeing / M. Deanya Lattimore -- Do status updates have any value? / Abrol Fairweather and Jodi Halpern -- Gatekeeper, moderator, synthesizer / Michael V. Butera -- Facebook, surveillance, and power / Waddick Doyle and Matthew Fraser -- Wall to wall or face to face / Asaf Bar-Tura -- Facebook as playground and factory / Trebor Scholz -- Proles and cons of facebook / Richard Morgan and John Clulow -- Faking it on facebook / Sara Louise Muhr and Michael Pedersen. |
| Summary |
This volume is an entertaining, multi-faceted exploration of what Facebook means for us and for our relationships. Facebook is a social networking service and website that launched in 2004. Users may create a personal profile, add other users as friends, and exchange messages, including automatic notifications when they update their profile. Additionally, users may join common interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics. With discussions ranging from the nature of friendship and its relationship to "friending," to the (debatable) efficacy of "online activism," this book is a systematic attempt to understand Facebook, also offering perspectives on Twitter and Web 2.0. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Facebook (Electronic resource)
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Facebook (Electronic resource) |
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Facebook (Electronic resource) |
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Online social networks.
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Online social networks. |
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Internet -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Wittkower, D. E., 1977-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Facebook and philosophy. Chicago : Open Court, ©2010 9780812696752 (DLC) 2010024152 (OCoLC)460054495 |
| ISBN |
9780812697209 (electronic book) |
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0812697200 (electronic book) |
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1282877372 |
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9781282877375 |
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9780812696752 (trade paper ; alkaline paper) |
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0812696751 (trade paper ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786612877377 |
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