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    Tales from Facebook / Daniel Miller.

    By: Miller, Daniel, 1954-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011Description: xx, 218 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0745652107; 9780745652108; 9780745652092; 0745652093Subject(s): Facebook (Electronic resource) | Online social networks | Information technology -- Social aspects | Facebook (Electronic resource) | Information technology -- Social aspects | Online social networks | Facebook | Internet | Facebook | Facebook (Web site) | Social networking | Information technology -- Social aspects | Facebook | Sociala nätverk online -- sociala aspekter | Facebook (Electronic resource) | Information technology -- Social aspects | Online social networksDDC classification: 302.30285 LOC classification: HM743.F33 | M55 2011Other classification: C913.3 | TP393.4
    Contents:
    pt. 1. Twelve portraits -- 1. Marriage Dun Mash Up -- 2. Community -- 3. For Whom the Bell Doesn't Toll -- 4. The Book of Truth -- 5. Cultivating FarmVille -- 6. Avatar -- 7. Time Suck -- 8. Getting the Word Out -- 9. It Was Just Sex -- 10. It's Who You Know -- 11. Picking BlackBerrys -- 12. The History Woman -- Lagniappe -- 13. The Philosophy of Doubles -- pt. 2. The Anthropology of Facebook -- A. The Invention of Fasbook -- B. Fifteen Theses on What Facebook Might Be -- C. The Fame of Facebook.
    Summary: Facebook is used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. This book examines 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.
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    pt. 1. Twelve portraits -- 1. Marriage Dun Mash Up -- 2. Community -- 3. For Whom the Bell Doesn't Toll -- 4. The Book of Truth -- 5. Cultivating FarmVille -- 6. Avatar -- 7. Time Suck -- 8. Getting the Word Out -- 9. It Was Just Sex -- 10. It's Who You Know -- 11. Picking BlackBerrys -- 12. The History Woman -- Lagniappe -- 13. The Philosophy of Doubles -- pt. 2. The Anthropology of Facebook -- A. The Invention of Fasbook -- B. Fifteen Theses on What Facebook Might Be -- C. The Fame of Facebook.

    Facebook is used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. This book examines 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.

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