The Social Media Age

Dr Zoetanya Sujon is a Senior Lecturer and the Programme Director for Communications and Media courses at London College of Communication (LCC), University of the Arts London. Before joining LCC in 2018, Zoetanya was a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications at Regent’s University London (2010-2018) and lecturer/Fellow in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science where she completed her PhD.Originally trained as a sociologist, Zoetanya draws from an interdisciplinary lens to address the relationships between new technologies and social life, particularly as related to everyday political and social life. Currently, these interests are based around four themes: social media, technologies and platform politics; the intersections between dataveillance, privacy and sharing culture; innovation and emerging technologies; and the impact of digital media on changing skill sets and digital literacies.Zoetanya has published in leading media journals such as New Media and Society, Social Media + Society, and the International Journal of Communication. Zoetanya also currently serves on the programme committee for the international conference on Social Media and Society, and is on the editorial board for Digital Culture and Education.

• Part 1: What are Social Media and Where Do They Come From?Chapter 1: The Social Media LandscapeChapter 2: The Historical Origins of Social MediaChapter 3: Power and IdeologyPart 2: Sociality and Social TechnologiesChapter 4: Understanding the ‘Social’ in Social MediaChapter 5: Material Infrastructures and PlatformizationChapter 6: Participation, Culture and ProtestPart 3: Everyday Life and Social MediaChapter 7: Selfie and Society: Snapchat and InstagramChapter 8: Privacy and DataveillanceChapter 9: Social Screens: From YouTube to TikTokChapter 10: Love, Intimacy and Personal Connections

Social media platforms have changed social life so completely in the past 15 years that it seems impossible to capture all that in a comprehensive book, but Zoetanya Sujon has managed it in this impressive text. Theoretically and geopolitically smart, and crammed full with great examples of social media′s role in both our politics and everyday intimacies, this is more than a textbook: it′s a primer for living in the age of social media.