[Air-L] Social Media: A Critical Introduction (Fourth edition, just published)

[Christian Fuchs]

Christian Fuchs. 2024. Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London: 
Sage. Fourth edition. 448 pages.
More info on the English edition (how to order a review or inspection 
copy, etc.):
https://fuchsc.net/books/social-media-a-critical-introduction-4th-edition/
German edition:
https://fuchsc.net/books/soziale-medien-und-kritische-theorie-2/

Published in December 2024, the fourth edition of Christian Fuchs’ 
textbook “Social Media: A Critical Introduction” gives an introduction 
to the use of Critical Theory for the analysis of the Internet and 
social media in society.

Contents

I. FOUNDATIONS

1. Social Media: A Critical Introduction

2. What are Social Media?

3. Big Data in Digital Capitalism

4. The Power and Political Economy of Social Media

II. PLATFORMS

5. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?

6. Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News

7. Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of TikTok, 
Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat

8. Elon Musk’s Twitter and the Colonisation of Political Communication 
on Twitter: Political Economy, Digital Democracy, and the (Digital) 
Public Sphere

9. Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Digital Fascism on Social Media

10. TikTok and China’s Political Economy in Global Capitalism

III. FUTURES

11. Towards Truly Social Media