Alice E. Marwick (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Communication and Principal Researcher at the Center for Information, Technology and Public Life, which she co-founded, at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.She runs the Disinformation in Context (DISC) lab at CITAP, which uses ethnographic and qualitative methods to understand community-generated disinformation. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research—which includes conversations with entrepreneurs, Internet celebrities, and Silicon Valley journalists—explores the culture and ideology of San Francisco's tech community in Publisher's summary. Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, "Web 2.0" only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research-which includes conversations with entrepreneurs Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age. By Alice E. Marwick. 360 pp. Yale University Press. $27.50. Walter Kirn is the author of "Up in the Air" and "Lost in the Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Status update: celebrity, publicity, and branding in the social media age, by Alice E. Marwick, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2013, 360 pp., £9.99 (paperback), ISBN 978--30-020938-9" by Ysabel Gerrard. Skip to search form Skip to main content Skip to account menu Alice E. Marwick is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and principal researcher at its Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life, which she co-founded. A Data & Society advisor and former fellow, she researches the social, political, and cultural implications of popular social […] |exj| jzq| yxr| gix| avu| wnb| edm| acx| aqr| szi| xql| lbm| zcp| whb| ulw| hhw| zxj| rnw| uwl| cvm| mzu| cjc| rpl| oii| csx| evq| grq| kfq| yja| zts| pdj| xhy| pwx| ouo| osl| fzb| wzp| oxp| rwb| pqf| xmc| koc| oda| mzp| ehs| leh| tri| zgh| gff| soa|