The culture of connectivity [electronic resource] : a critical history of social media / Jos�e van Dijck.

This book studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century, up until 2012. It provides both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of networking services in the context of a changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand how the intricate constellation of platforms profoundly affects our experience of online sociality.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.