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• About the Author
• Preface
• Part I Foundations
• 1 Social Media: A Critical Introduction
• 2 What are Social Media?
• 3 Big Data in Digital Capitalism
• 4 The Power and Political Economy of Social Media
• Part II Platforms
• 5 Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?
• 6 Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News
• 7 Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat
• 8 Elon Musk’s X/Twitter and the Colonisation of Political Communication on X/Twitter: Political Economy, Digital Democracy, and the (Digital) Public Sphere
• 9 Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Digital Fascism on Social Media
• 10 TikTok and China’s Political Economy in Global Capitalism
• Part III Futures
• 11 Towards Truly Social Media
• References
• Index