Understanding Reddit
Elliot T. Panek, "Understanding Reddit "
English | ISBN: 0367714191 | 2021 | 132 pages | EPUB | 347 KB
English | ISBN: 0367714191 | 2021 | 132 pages | EPUB | 347 KB
This book offers a comprehensive scholarly overview of Reddit, one of the most popular and least studied social platforms of the early 21st century.
The book inspires new ways of thinking about Reddit, considering it from multiple perspectives: through a historical lens, as a site where identity is forged, as a democracy, as a community, and as a news aggregator and distributor. By bringing theories from computer-mediated communication, communication studies, and sociology to bear on original, large-scale observational analyses of Reddit’s communities, this book provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the platform’s first 15 years. Understanding Reddit will help us make sense of how rapidly growing communities function in an era of mass online anonymity.
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