Tales from Facebook

Tales from Facebook
Author :
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 308
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780745637877
ISBN-13 : 0745637876
Rating : 4/5 (876 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Tales from Facebook by : Daniel Miller

Download or read book Tales from Facebook written by Daniel Miller and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until now there has been no major study of the impact of these social networking sites upon the lives of their users. This book demonstrates that it can be profound. The tales in this book reveal how Facebook can become the means by which people find and cultivate relationships, but can also be instrumental in breaking up marriage. They reveal how Facebook can bring back the lives of people isolated in their homes by illness or age, by shyness or failure, but equally Facebook can devastate privacy and create scandal. We discover why some people believe that the truth of another person lies more in what you see online than face-to-face. We also see how Facebook has become a vehicle for business, the church, sex and memorialisation. After a century in which we have assumed social networking and community to be in decline, Facebook has suddenly hugely expanded our social relationships, challenging the central assumptions of social science. It demonstrates one of the main tenets of anthropology - that individuals have always been social networking sites. This book examines in detail how Facebook transforms the lives of particular individuals, but it also presents a general theory of Facebook as culture and considers the likely consequences of social networking in the future.


Tales from Facebook Related Books

Tales from Facebook
Language: en
Pages: 308
Authors: Daniel Miller
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-25 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

GET EBOOK

Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the lar
My Tiny Life
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Julian Dibbell
Categories: Computers
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Julian Dibbell

GET EBOOK

This novelistic rendering of a true account tells of a celebrated rape case which took place in an electronic "salon", where Internet junkies have created their
Mother Of All Tales
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Supreet Dhiman
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-25 - Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers

GET EBOOK

"This book is a tribute to mostly unsung heroines of our lives; our mothers. The book is a precious and playful banter between a 70-year-old traditional Punjabi
The Puppet's Payback and Other Chilling Tales
Language: en
Pages: 197
Authors: Mary Downing Hahn
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher: Clarion Books

GET EBOOK

From ghost story master Mary Downing Hahn, an assortment of eerie short stories to thrill and chill young readers.
Desert Glory
Language: en
Pages: 188
Authors: Nicole Parker
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-11 - Publisher:

GET EBOOK

Thrilling, profound lessons from the biblical Exodus come alive in this gripping adventure story of courage, praise, and glorious liberation! Journey with Asher