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Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks

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Jeffrey Layne Blevins
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James Jaehoon Lee

Jeffrey Layne Blevins and James Jaehoon Lee combine critical political economic theory and network analysis to create a groundbreaking interactive book that explores the role of social media activity, like Twitter posts, in social justice and political campaigns. From intended use of social media by social justice advocates, to commercial interests and political forces use of bots, troll farms, and clever memes to shape public discourse, SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ONLINE NETWORKS examines social justice and political activities on Twitter in the age of fake news and post-truth.

The open access version of this book contains interactive data visualizations created by the University of Cincinnati Libraries Digital Scholarship Center. This data vis allows readers to conduct their own experiments and do further research using the authors' data sets. The University of Cincinnati Press invites readers to discuss, comment, annotate and share thoughts and findings back on this open platform.

Sections of SOCIAL MEDIA, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ONLINE NETWORKS by Blevins and Lee will be published incrementally in open access over the next six months. We invite you to read Section One and Two now.

Read "Section One: Social Justice Discourse on Social Media and Legacy News" hereRead "Section Two: Political Discourse on Social Media" here
UC Libraries Digital Scholarship CenterThis book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to a generous TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) grant from the University of Cincinnati
Read "Section One: Social Justice Discourse on Social Media and Legacy News" hereRead "Section Two: Political Discourse on Social Media" here
UC Libraries Digital Scholarship CenterThis book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to a generous TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) grant from the University of Cincinnati
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About the Authors

Jeffrey Layne Blevins is Head of the Journalism Department at the University of Cincinnati and editor of the scholarly journal Democratic Communiqué. A frequent opinion-editorial columnist, Dr. Blevins’s commentary on media policy and ethics has appeared in USA Today, Cincinnati Enquirer, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other venues. In 2009 he served as a federal grant reviewer for the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and the U.S. Department of Commerce.

James Jaehoon Lee is Director of the Digital Scholarship Center, Associate Dean of Research for Libraries, and Associate Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship at the University of Cincinnati.

The authors are grateful for the research assistance of Ezra Edgerton, a fellow in the Digital Scholarship Center at the University of Cincinnati; Alexandra Pasqualone, when she was a master’s student in the Department of History and Graduate Assistant in the Digital Scholarship Center; and Katie Coburn when she was a Journalism major at the University of Cincinnati.

Resources

Single Resources

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    Black Lives Matter August Statistics

  • Interactive

    Black Lives Matter November-December Statistics

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    Black Lives Matter August Networks

  • Interactive

    Black Lives Matter November-December Networks

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Social Media, Social Justice, and the Political Economy of Online Networks

  • Social Justice Discourse On Social Media And Legacy News

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  • Political Discourse On Social Media

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  • container title
    Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks
  • edition
    prepublication
  • publisher
    University of Cincinnati Press
  • publisher place
    Cincinnati
  • restrictions
    CC BY-NC-ND
  • rights
    Worldwide print and digital rights

    Creative Commons License
  • rights holder
    University of Cincinnati
  • rights territory
    World
  • version
    open access
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.10.34314/
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