"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better understood by comparing processes of development and use across nations, media, and platforms"--
"The authors argue that scholarship on social media has been limited by an over-reliance on single country studies that focus on one platform at a time, without considering the ties between platforms and other media. To overcome these limitations, the authors propose that social media are better understood by comparing processes of development and use across nations, media, and platforms"--
Mora Matassi is a PhD candidate in Media, Technology, and Society at Northwestern University. Pablo J. Boczkowski is Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University.
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Acknowledgments vii 1 Nations, Media, and Platforms 1 I Foundations 2 Cross-National and Regional Comparisons 19 3 Cross-Media Comparisons 43 4 Cross-Platform Comparisons 63 II Pathways 5 Histories 87 6 Languages 113 7 Blurred Genres, Trading Zones, and Heterogeneous Inquiries 139 Notes 159 References 165 Index 203