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“The book is extremely readable, neatly introducing complex ideas, and then building on them in an effective way. Due to the nature of the book, its lucidity, and its efficient summary, this work will be extremely useful for any foray into reading post-autonomist, post-Fordist accounts of media and communication. It makes use of many case studies, and thus will provide teachable material for undergraduate courses as well.” (Robbie Fordyce, Communication Research and Practice, Vol. 2 (2), 2016)
"One could think of this book as social media criticism 2.0. Langlois . . . applies a broad array of semiotic, psychoanalytic, and political theory to social media and other modern communications technologies, which she calls 'semiotechnologies - machines that make meaning . . . By examining how platforms such as Google and Facebook rank search results and curate user posts, Langlois contests oversimplified accounts of social media, taken as a whole, as a tool that simply liberates and empowers users. She provides a nuanced account of how meaning is generated on social media as individual users interact with corporate forprofit technologies designed to 'financialize and commodify psychic life'. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper division undergraduates through faculty? general readers." - CHOICE
"Whatever you thought, meanings are not restricted to humans but are part of the business of technological platforms and corporations. Ganaele Langlois' excellent analysis tells the story of materiality of meaning in software culture. Its scholarly, rich analysis of the semiotechnological life has far reaching implications and will be a key text in social studies of software." - Jussi Parikka, Reader, Media and Design, University of Southampton, UKAbout the author
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Book Title: Meaning in the Age of Social Media
Authors: Ganaele Langlois
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137356611
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Ganaele Langlois 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-35660-4Published: 05 June 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-47054-9Published: 05 June 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-35661-1Published: 05 June 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 201
Topics: Media Studies, Media and Communication, Family, Sociology, general, Cultural Studies, Community and Environmental Psychology