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• List of figures and tables
• About the author
• Preface
• I FOUNDATIONS
• 1 What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media?
• 1.1 Overview
• 1.2 What is Critical Thinking and Why Does it Matter?
• 1.3 What is Critical Theory?
• 1.4 Critical Theory Approaches
• 2 What are Social Media?
• 2.1 Overview
• 2.2 Web 2.0 and Social Media
• 2.3 The Need of Social Theory for Understanding Social Media
• 2.4 Explaining Social Media with Durkheim, Weber, Marx, and Tönnies
• 2.5 A Model of Social Media Communication
• 2.6 The Changes of Digital Communication in the Coronavirus Crisis
• 2.7 Conclusion
• 3 Big Data Capitalism
• 3.1 Overview
• 3.2 Big Data
• 3.3 Big Data Capitalism
• 3.4 Big Data Capitalism’s Problems
• 3.5 Alternatives to Big Data Capitalism
• 3.6 Big Data’s Digital Positivism: Social Media Research as Big Data Analytics and Computational Social Science
• 3.7 Conclusion
• II APPLICATIONS
• 4 The Power and Political Economy of Social Media
• 4.1 Overview
• 4.2 The Limits of Social Media Participation
• 4.3 The Cycle of Capital Accumulation
• 4.4 Capital Accumulation and Social Media
• 4.5 The International Division of Digital Labour
• 4.6 Digital Labour on Facebook, Slave Labour, and Housework: Commonalities and Differences
• 4.7 Conclusion
• 5 Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?
• 5.1 Overview
• 5.2 Google’s Political Economy
• 5.3 Googology: Google and Ideology
• 5.4 Work at Google
• 5.5 Google: God and Satan in One Company
• 5.6 Google and the State: Monopoly Power and Tax Avoidance
• 5.7 Conclusion
• 6 Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News
• 6.1 Overview
• 6.2 Facebook’s Political Economy
• 6.3 The Political Economy of WhatsApp
• 6.4 Facebook and the Like-Ideology
• 6.5 The Cambridge Analytica Scandal: Fake News on Facebook
• 6.6 Surveillance Capitalism?
• 6.7 Conclusion
• 7 Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat
• 7.1 Overview
• 7.2 Influencer Capitalism’s Political Economy
• 7.3 Influencer Capitalism’s Ideology
• 7.4 Influencer Capitalism’s Problems
• 7.5 Socialist Influencers
• 7.6 Conclusion
• 8 Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere?
• 8.1 Overview
• 8.2 Twitter’s Political Economy
• 8.3 Habermas’s Concept of the Public Sphere
• 8.4 Political Communication on Twitter
• 8.5 Uncivil Communication on Twitter
• 8.6 @JürgenHabermas #Twitter #PublicSphere
• 8.7 Social Movements and Political Parties in the Digital Age
• 8.8 Conclusion
• 9 Right-wing Authoritarianism on Social Media
• 9.1 Overview
• 9.2 Right-wing Authoritarianism
• 9.3 Authoritarian Leadership on Social Media
• 9.4 Nationalism on Social Media
• 9.5 The Friend/Enemy-Scheme on Social Media
• 9.6 Violence and Militant Patriarchy on Social Media
• 9.7 Conclusion
• 10 Weibo: Power, Ideology, and Social Struggles in China
• 10.1 Overview
• 10.2 Weibo’s Political Economy
• 10.3 Weibo and Social Media Ideologies
• 10.4 The Chinese Internet’s Political Control
• 10.5 Chinese Social Struggles in the Age of Weibo
• 10.6 Conclusion
• 11 The Sharing Economy of Airbnb, Uber, and Upwork
• 11.1 Overview
• 11.2 Uber and Upwork: The Pay-per-Service Sharing Model
• 11.3 Airbnb: The Capitalist Sharing Economy’s Rent-on-Rent Model
• 11.4 Conclusion
• 12 Platform Capitalism
• 12.1 Overview
• 12.2 Platforms, Platform Society, and Platform Capitalism
• 12.3 Platform Co-operativism: An Alternative Platform Society beyond Platform Capitalism?
• 12.4 Conclusion
• 13 Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production?
• 13.1 Overview
• 13.2 The Communist Idea
• 13.3 Communication and Communism
• 13.4 Wikipedia’s Political Economy
• 13.5 Conclusion
• III FUTURES
• 14 Capitalist Social Media’s Major Problems and Alternatives
• 14.1 Social Media Reality: Ten Problems
• 14.2 Digital Alienation
• 14.3 Social Media Alternatives
• 14.4 Conclusion
• 15 A Manifesto for Truly Social Media
• 15.1 Introduction
• 15.2 Digital Alternatives: Platform Co-operatives
• 15.3 Digital Alternatives: Towards a Public Service Internet
• 15.4 Ten Principles of Communicative/Digital Socialism
• 15.5 Towards a Truly Social Media and a New Society
• References
• Index