TY - BOOK AU - Fuchs, Christian TI - Social Media: a Critical Introduction SN - 978-1-4739-6682-6 U1 - 659.443 PY - 2017/// CY - Los Angeles PB - Sage KW - 1. Whats is a Critical Introduction to Social Media? KW - I. FOUNDATIONS KW - 2. What are Social Media and Bid Data? KW - 3. Social Media as Participatory Culture KW - 4. Social Media and Communication Power KW - II APPLICATIONS KW - 5. The Power and Political Economy of Social Media KW - 6. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine? KW - 7. Facebook: Surveillance in the Age of Edward Snowden KW - 8. Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere? KW - 9. Weibo: Power, Ideology and Social Struggles in Chinese Capitalism KW - 10. Airbnb and Uber: The Political Economy of Online Sharing Platforms KW - 11. Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production? KW - III FUTURES KW - 12. Conclusion: Social Media and its Alternatives-Towards a Truly Social media ER -