Tales from Facebook / Daniel Miller.
Miller, Daniel, 1954-
2011
HM742 .M547 2011 (Mapit)
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Title Tales from Facebook / Daniel Miller.
Author Miller, Daniel, 1954-
ISBN 9780745652092
0745652093
9780745652108 (pbk.)
0745652107 (pbk.)
Publication Details Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011.
Language English
Description xx, 218 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HM742 .M547 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.30285
Summary Facebook is used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. This book examines 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Pt. 1. Twelve portraits
1. Marriage Dun Mash Up
2. Community
3. For Whom the Bell Doesn't Toll
4. The Book of Truth
5. Cultivating FarmVille
6. Avatar
7. Time Suck
8. Getting the Word Out
9. It Was Just Sex
10. It's Who You Know
11. Picking BlackBerrys
12. The History Woman
Lagniappe
13. The Philosophy of Doubles
pt. 2. The Anthropology of Facebook
A. The Invention of Fasbook
B. Fifteen Theses on What Facebook Might Be
C. The Fame of Facebook.

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