Open AccessBook Review: The Social Media Revolution: An Economic Encyclopedia of Friending, Following, Texting, and Connecting
Author(s) -
Anita Slack
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
reference and user services quarterly/reference and user services quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.443
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 2163-5242
pISSN - 1094-9054
DOI - 10.5860/rusq.56n3.220a
Subject(s) - encyclopedia , social media , sociology , style (visual arts) , work (physics) , media studies , world wide web , computer science , visual arts , engineering , art , library science , mechanical engineering
As I began perusing this volume, I found myself falling into the assumption that this title would deal exclusively with the “how to” aspect of social media, as have many of the titles I have encountered. One word in the title, “economic,” should have tipped me off to the fundamental differences between this work and others contained in my own collections, and those being offered via Amazon and GOBI3, but I was momentarily blinded by the plethora of the didactic social-media-for-business style tomes. This work considers the larger impact of activities that the introduction and evolution of social media has introduced, particularly those of an economic, cultural, social, and communicative nature.