Online social networks
Here are entered works on Web services, such as Facebook, Twitter, etc., that enable people to meet, interact with, and develop personal relationships with others.
See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.
Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Online social networks -- Case studies
- Online social networks -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Online social networks -- Moral and ethical aspects
- Online social networks -- Political aspects
- Online social networks -- Public opinion
- Online social networks -- Social aspects
- Communities, Online (Online social networks)
- Communities, Virtual (Online social networks)
- Electronic social networks
- Online communities (Online social networks)
- Social networking Web sites
- Virtual communities
- Social networking service
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The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building Technologies for Communities (second edition, 2014), by Brian Whitworth and Adnan Ahmad (illustrated HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)- Off the Network: Disrupting the Digital World (open access edition; Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2013), by Ulises Ali Mejias (PDF with commentary at umn.edu)
- Introducing Vigilant Audiences (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Daniel Trottier, Rashid Gabdulhakov, and Qian Huang (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
- Visualising Facebook: A Comparative Perspective (London: UCL Press, c2017), by Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
- Facets of Facebook: Use and Users (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), ed. by Kathrin Knautz and Katsiaryna S. Baran
- It's Complicated: The Social Life of Networked Teens (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2014), by danah boyd (PDF with commentary at danah.org)
- Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013), ed. by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)
- The Art of Community (second edition; c2012), by Jono Bacon (PDF at artofcommunityonline.org)
- The Art of Community (first edition; c2009), by Jono Bacon (PDF with commentary at artofcommunityonline.org)
- Dungeons and Dreamers: A Story of How Computer Games Created a Global Community (second edition; Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), by Brad King and John Borland (PDF with commentary at CMU)
- Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains (New York et al.: Seven Stories Press, c2022), by Vitalik Buterin, ed. by Nathan Schneider (PDF with commentary at nathanschneider.info)
- How the World Changed Social Media (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliana Spyer, S. Venkatraman, and Xinyuan Wang
- Evaluation and Credentialing in Digital Music Communities: Benefits and Challenges for Learning and Assessment (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2014), by H. Cecilia Suhr (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
- Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)
- Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2010), by Joseph M. Reagle, contrib. by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
- The Social Corps: The U.S.M.C. Social Media Principles (2011), by United States Marine Corps (PDF with commentary at dodlive.mil)
- United States Army Social Media Handbook (version 2, August 2011), by United States Army (page images at slideshare.net)
- Protecting Children Online? Cyberbullying Policies of Social Media Companies (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Tijana Milosevic, contrib. by Sonia M. Livingstone (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
- Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life (Oakland: University of California Press, c2024), by Nathan Schneider, illust. by Darija Medić (multiple formats with commentary at luminosoa.org)
- Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), ed. by Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker (PDF and HTML at Cambridge Core)
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2017), by Zeynep Tufekci (PDF (at bottom of page) with commentary at twitterandteargas.org)
- Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution (New Brunswick, NJ, et al: Rutgers University Press, c2013), by Niki Akhavan
- #Identity: Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2019), ed. by Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)
- Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World (Dublin, OH: OCLC, c2007), contrib. by Cathy De Rosa, Joanne Cantrell, Andy Havens, Janet Hawk, and Lillie Jenkins (PDF files with commentary at oclc.org)
- Geoblocking and Global Video Culture (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2016), ed. by Ramon Lobato and James Meese (multiple formats at networkcultures.org)
- The YouTube Reader (Stockholm: National Library of Sweden, 2009), ed. by Pelle Snickars and Patrick Vonderau (PDF in Sweden)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Social media- Rethinking Social Media and Extremism (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 2022), ed. by Shirley Leitch and Paul A. Pickering (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)
- Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives (Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 2013), ed. by Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)
- The Social Media Reader (New York and London: New York University Press, c2012), ed. by Michael Mandiberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2015), by Joseph M. Reagle (illustrated HTML with commentary at MIT Press)
- Software Takes Command: Extending the Language of New Media (New York and London: Bloomsbury, c2013), by Lev Manovich (illustrated HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)
- A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2020), ed. by Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Ellen Stein, and Indira Neill Hoch (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)
- Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019), by Leah A. Plunkett, contrib. by John Palfrey (illustrated HTML at MIT Press)
- Teaching Crowds: Learning and Social Media (c2014), by Jon Dron and Terry Anderson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
- Hacking the Academy: The Edited Volume (2011), by Daniel J. Cohen, ed. by Tom Scheinfeldt (HTML with commentary at digitalculture.org)
- eGirls, eCitizens (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2015), ed. by Jane Bailey and Valerie M. Steeves (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
- How Wikipedia Works: And How You Can Be a Part of It (San Francisco: No Starch Press, c2008), by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates
- #Hashtagactivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice, by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles (PDF files at MIT Press)
- Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2018), by Tarleton Gillespie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Social Media in Industrial China (London: UCL Press, c2016), by Xinyuan Wang
- Social Media in Rural China: Social Networks and Moral Frameworks (London: UCL Press, c2016), by Tom McDonald
- Social Media in an English Village: or, How to Keep People at Just the Right Distance (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Daniel Miller
- The Social Corps: The U.S.M.C. Social Media Principles (2011), by United States Marine Corps (PDF with commentary at dodlive.mil)
- United States Army Social Media Handbook (version 2, August 2011), by United States Army (page images at slideshare.net)
- Social Media in Southeast Italy: Crafting Ideals (London: UCL Press, c2016), by Razvan Nicolescu
- You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polluted Information (prepublication edition; 2020), by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner (HTML at pubpub.org)
- How the World Changed Social Media (London: UCL Press, 2016), by Daniel Miller, Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliana Spyer, S. Venkatraman, and Xinyuan Wang
- Transformative Works and Cultures (2008-) (full serial archives)
- The Propagation of Misinformation in Social Media: A Cross-Platform Analysis (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2023), ed. by Richard Rogers (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Social Media and Democracy: The State of the Field, Prospects for Reform (Cambridge, UK et al.: Cambridge University Press, c2020), ed. by Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker (PDF and HTML at Cambridge Core)
- Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2017), by Zeynep Tufekci (PDF (at bottom of page) with commentary at twitterandteargas.org)
- Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (London: Pluto Press, c2012), by Paolo Gerbaudo (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
More items available under broader and related terms at left.