Tales from Facebook

作者：DanielMiller

出版社：PolityPress

出版年：2011-4-1

页数：240

定价：GBP55.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780745652092

内容简介
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Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until now there has been no major study of the impact of these social networking sites upon the lives of their users. This book demonstrates that it can be profound. The tales in this book reveal how Facebook can become the means by which people find and cultivate relationships, but can also be instrumental in breaking up marriage. They reveal how Facebook can bring back the lives of people isolated in their homes by illness or age, by shyness or failure, but equally Facebook can devastate privacy and create scandal. We discover why some people believe that the truth of another person lies more in what you see online than face-to-face. We also see how Facebook has become a vehicle for business, the church, sex and memorialisation.

After a century in which we have assumed social networking and community to be in decline, Facebook has suddenly hugely expanded our social relationships, challenging the central assumptions of social science. It demonstrates one of the main tenets of anthropology – that individuals have always been social networking sites. This book examines in detail how Facebook transforms the lives of particular individuals, but it also presents a general theory of Facebook as culture and considers the likely consequences of social networking in the future.

作者简介
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Daniel Miller is Professor of Anthropology at University College London.

目录
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Preface

PART ONE – Portraits

1) Marriage Dun Mash Up

2) Avatar

3) For Whom the Bell Doesn't Toll

4) The Book of Truth

5) It's Who You Know

6) Community

7) Time Suck

8) Cultivating FarmVille

9) It Was Just Sex

10) Getting the Word Out

11) Picking BlackBerrys

12) The History Woman

Lagniappe

The Philosophy of Doubles

PART TWO – The Anthropology of Facebook

A) The Invention of Fasbook.

B) The Fame of Facebook.

C) 15 theses on what Facebook might just be

Glossary and Acknowledgements

评论 ······

故事写得一点都不吸引人

写的好像有点着急了？

这本书让我想起来三联和人物最近的一些报道，人死后用他的社交网络言论和喜好去判断这个人，不管再怎么作声明只是呈现一个部分，既然你选择用这个角度来写作，那就说明你自认为你还是掌握了其一部分的，你觉得你碰到了本质的一环，至少比那些没看人社交网络内容的人要深刻，所以有报道的价值和必要，因为死者的朋友不会随意po出来死者的朋友圈或QQ空间内容，他们只会去默默看然后伤感，哪怕发表什么情绪，也只是发在个人社交空…

值得一看的消遣级别学术书籍 （万年没遇到tryst milieu perspicaticy sui generis这种SAT专用词汇了

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