The institutions we have come to call “media” have been involved for over a century in
providing an infrastructure for social life and have invested in a quite particular and …

Social media continues to grow as a focus of social, organizational, and scholarly interest,
yet there is little agreement as to what constitutes social media and how it can be effectively …

All media are social—they are after all media, in between, intermediating between
producers and consumers of content, information, conversation, between the actors in the …

Social theory needs to be completely rethought in a world of digital media and social media
platforms driven by data processes. Fifty years after Berger and Luckmann published their …

This piece argues that all communication media are inherently social. The term “social
media” emerged at the time that companies began harnessing what people were already …

What is a social medium, and how may one moderate, isolate, and influence communicative
processes within? Although scholars assume an inherent understanding of social media …

The phenomenon of “social media” has more to do with its cultural positioning than its
technological affordances. Rooted in the broader “Web 2.0” landscape, social media helped …

Social Media: Principles and Applications examines social media in interpersonal, mass-
mediated, educational, organizational, and political settings. Social media technologies take …

This is the introductory chapter of Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research, which
introduces the concept of the sociality hierarchy; that is, three “levels” of sociality inherent in …

I suggest that Social Media and Society will be substantially focused on questions of social
change. Thus, I urge a historical perspective that avoids the temptation to consolidate the …