Instagram is at the heart of global digital culture, having made selfies, filters and square
frames an inescapable part of everyday life since it was launched in 2010. In the first book …

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post
online—and the large societal impact of these decisions Most users want their Twitter feed …

We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access
information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize, and Netflix …

This article analyzes algorithm awareness as a process—a series of activities intended to
reach a goal over time. It examines how a group of Costa Ricans understood, felt about, and …

An innovative investigation of the inner workings of Spotify that traces the transformation of
audio files into streamed experience. Spotify provides a streaming service that has been …

This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of
interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at 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 …

Social media platforms rose up out of the exquisite chaos of the web. Their founders were
inspired by or hoping to capitalize on the freedom it promised, while also hoping to provide …

Social media fuel a sense of unsettledness to encourage uninterrupted connectivity and
generate quantifiable engagement. This article is concerned with the habitual, naturalized …

Platforms rose up out of the exquisite chaos of the web. Their founders were inspired by the
freedom it promised, but also hoped to provide spaces for the web's best and most social …