Research Catalog

Title

Tales from Facebook / Daniel Miller.

Author

Miller, Daniel, 1954-

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011.

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Details

Description

xx, 218 p.; 23 cm.

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.

Subjects

• Information technology > Social aspects
• Social networking
• Facebook (Web site)
• Online social networks
• Facebook (Electronic resource)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. Twelve portraits. Marriage dun mash up: We watch a man's marriage break up. Why he blames Facebook -- Community: A woman in a village compares her community with that of being on Facebook -- For whom the bell doesn't toll: A previously very active man, now in his sixties and housebound, is gifted his life back by Facebook -- The book of truth: A woman explains why what you see on Facebook is closer to the truth of a person than meeting them face to face -- Cultivating FarmVille: A rather unsuccessful young man finds friends through FarmVille -- Avatar: A woman reveals how being extremely public on Facebook is her means to remaining extremely private otherwise -- Time suck: What do teenagers who spend six hours a day on Facebook actually do? -- Getting the word out: The contrast between male and female usage within a church. Media as God's instrument for spreading the word -- It was just sex: A sex video which features the lead singer of a band is leaked onto the internet: the consequences -- It's who you know: How in business and private life we need to understand that all individuals are social networking sites -- Picking BlackBerrys: A BlackBerry helps a man find a new role for Facebook, after it had first assisted and then betrayed his primary relationship -- The history woman: A woman links her personal history to the history of Facebook -- Lagniappe: The philosophy of doubles: Quick thoughts from a fast food -- pt. 2. The anthropology of Facebook. The invention of Fasbook: what makes Facebook Trinidadian -- Fifteen theses on what Facebook might be: what makes Facebook important -- The fame of Facebook: what makes Facebook Melanesian.

ISBN

• 0745652107 (pbk.)
• 9780745652108 (pbk.)
• 9780745652092
• 0745652093

OCLC

• 667822912
• SCSB-11546268

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library