The Social Media Reader
The Social Media Reader, edited by Michael Mandiberg:
With the rise of web 2.0 and social media platforms taking over vast tracts of territory on the internet, the media landscape has shifted drastically in the past 20 years, transforming previously stable relationships between media creators and consumers. The Social Media Reader is the first collection to address the collective transformation with pieces on social media, peer production, copyright politics, and other aspects of contemporary internet culture from all the major thinkers in the field.
Culling a broad range and incorporating different styles of scholarship from foundational pieces and published articles to unpublished pieces, journalistic accounts, personal narratives from blogs, and whitepapers, The Social Media Reader promises to be an essential text, Continue reading










Mapping Community Arts: Subversion, Repressive Tolerance and Pastoral Power by Pascal Gielen — organized and moderated by Hakan Topal with a response by Alex Villar :: November 8, 2011; 6:30 pm :: Art in General, 79 Walker Street, New York, NY.
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