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• Table of contents
• Preface: What Is/Are Social Media?—The Scope of Understanding Social Media
• Part I: The Media that Made Social Media Possible
• Chapter One: Introducing the Seven Ages of Communication
• Chapter Two: The Impacts of Digital Computing
• Chapter Three: The Impacts of the Internet and the World Wide Web: The Online Age
• Chapter Four: Impacts of the Smartphone and Their Apps
• Chapter Five: Online Communication Channels: E-mail, IM, Texting, VoIP, and Online Meeting Apps
• Part II: The Social Media Revolution
• Chapter Six: The Impacts of Social Media
• Chapter Seven: Facebook, LinkedIn and Similar Social Media Sites
• Chapter Eight: Instagram
• Chapter Nine: Snapchat
• Chapter Ten: Reddit
• Chapter Eleven: Tinder and Other Dating Apps
• Chapter Twelve: Blogs, the Blogosphere and Blogging Platforms
• Chapter Thirteen: YouTube
• Chapter Fourteen: TikTok: The New Wave of Content
• Chapter Fifteen: Twitter
• Chapter Sixteen: Pre-digital Age Monopolies
• Part III: Social Media and Monopolies
• Chapter Seventeen: The Rise of Mega Monopolies in the Digital Age
• Chapter Eighteen: Digital Age Monopolies and Social Media
• Chapter Nineteen: Social Media, Branding and Advertising
• Part IV: The Splinternet, Cyber Warfare and the Social Media Counter Revolution
• Chapter Twenty: The Splinternet and Social Media Censorship in China, North Korea, Vietnam, Russia,
• Chapter Twenty-One: World War III: Cyber Warfare and Social Media Threats to Democracy
• Chapter Twenty-Two: The Social Media Counter Revolution
• Appendix—Social Media Apps