{"product_id":"a-sleepwalkers-guide-to-social-media-hardback-9781509537402","title":"A Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media (Hardback) 9781509537402","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTony D. Sampson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509537402, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 3 July 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e208 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.476 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eA Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for the age of sleep disorders and political disorders; it is a book about the reshuffling of affects and the data-driven cognition. Sampson maps brilliantly the production of the dark refrains of contemporary culture from UX design to the broader context of experience capitalism and social media. A dark book, a joyous read.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJussi Parikka, University of Southampton (UK) and FAMU (Prague)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"This is an essential book of dystopian media theory and an admonition of the high stakes of connectivity now and in the future.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTero Karppi, University of Toronto\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eA Sleepwalker’s Guide to Social Media\u003c\/i\u003e is exactly what we need in these post-truth times.  Tony Sampson brilliantly and succinctly takes us beyond the impasse between hyperreality and the illusory certainties of objective truth, introducing us to the collective nonconscious and its political, social and cultural implications. Read it now!\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePatricia Clough, CUNY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Sleepwalker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003es Guide to Social Media\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential text not only for those who focus on media studies, but also for those who are interested in sociology, STS studies, and anthropology, disciplines that study similar issues concerning the internet, users, and human behavior in social settings.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInformation, Communication \u0026amp; Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePositing online users as 'sleepwalkers', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produce subjectivities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a wide range of theorists, including A.N. Whitehead and Gabriel Tarde, he provides tools to track his sleepwalker through the 'dark refrain of social media': a refrain that spreads through viral platform architectures with a staccato-like repetition of shock events, rumours, conspiracy, misinformation, big lies, search engine weaponization, data voids, populist strongmen, immune system failures, and far-right hate speech. Sampson's sleepwalker is not a pre-programmed smartphone junkie, but a conceptual personae intended to dodge capture by data doubles and lookalikes. Sleepwalkers are neither asleep nor wide awake; they are a liminal experimentation in collective mimicry and self-other relationality. Their purpose is to stir up a new kind of community that emerges from the potentialities of revolutionary contagion. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt a time in which social media is influencing more people than ever, \u003ci\u003eA Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media\u003c\/i\u003e is an important reference for students and scholars of media theory, digital media and social media.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntro \u003cbr\u003eChapter One: Feeling Facts and Fakes \u003cbr\u003eChapter Two: On the Viral Spectra of Somnambulism \u003cbr\u003eCoda: Christchurch\u003cbr\u003e El Paso \u003cbr\u003eChapter Three: The Virality of Experience Capitalism \u003cbr\u003eSegue: A Dark [Viral] Refrain \u003cbr\u003eChapter Four: Immunity, Community and Contagion \u003cbr\u003eChapter Five: Deeper Entanglements \u003cbr\u003eOutro: Disrupting the Dark Refrain \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441800507672,"sku":"9781509537402","price":45.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509537402.jpg?v=1785026104","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-sleepwalkers-guide-to-social-media-hardback-9781509537402","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}