A critical hypertext analysis of social media : the true colours of Facebook /: the true colours of Facebook. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Volker Eisenlauer.
• Authors: Eisenlauer, Volker
• Contents: Social Media and Social Network Sites ; Web 2.0, Social Media and Personal Publishing -- Technological determinism and social constructionism ; What are Social Network Sites? ; What is Facebook? ; Fb as a third author ; The impact of social media on literacy practices -- Approaching Social Media Critically ; A critical focus on social media ; Text and hypertext in an everyday sense ; The linguistic perception of text and hypertext ; Text and hypertext in concurrency : seven standards of (hyper- )textuality ; The theoretical framework of Critical Hypertext Analysis (CHTA) -- A Critical Hypertext Analysis of the Software Service Facebook ; Facebook as a software service ; Approaching Facebook from a hypertext model ; Approaching Facebook from a traditional text model ; Summary -- Facebook's Impact on User Text Actions : A Case Study ; Research question and design of the study ; Doing things with Facebook ; Patterns of actions in Facebook-bound texts ; Outsourced identities ; Limitations and implications for data collection methods ; Data collection : Sampling user groups and text actions ; Data analysis ; Summary -- Conclusion ; The software service as an ideological tool ; Outsourced texts and new patterns of action ; Non-intended text actions and discursive identity creation ; Limitations and suggestions for future research.
• Publisher Details: London New York : Bloomsbury
• Publication Date: 2013
• Copyright Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 235 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 302.30285; Online social networks; COMPUTERS -- Web -- Social Networking; Online social networks; Sociala medier; Sociala nätverk online; Facebook; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441105141; 9781441159700; 1441159703
• Related ISBNs: 144110514X; 9781441170880; 144117088X; 9781474222860; 1474222862
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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