Social Media and Everyday Politics

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By Tim Highfield

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Social Media and Everyday Politics by Tim Highfield explores the intersection of personal expression and political commentary on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Tumblr, and Instagram. The book reveals how everyday online activities—selfies, memes, hashtags—serve as vehicles for political engagement and participation. Highfield's analysis spans global examples, including movements such as the Arab Spring, Occupy, #blacklivesmatter, and #jesuischarlie, highlighting how politics emerges from both the serious and the seemingly trivial aspects of social media use.
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This book is ideal for students and scholars of media, communications, internet studies, and political science, as well as readers interested in contemporary media and political dynamics shaped by social media.

From selfies and memes to hashtags and parodies, social media are used for mundane and personal expressions of political commentary, engagement, and participation. The coverage of politics reflects the social mediation of everyday life, where individual experiences and thoughts are documented and shared online.

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In Social Media and Everyday Politics, Tim Highfield examines political talk as everyday occurrences on Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Tumblr, Instagram, and more. He considers the personal and the political, the serious and the silly, and the everyday within the extraordinary, as politics arises from seemingly banal and irreverent topics. The analysis features international examples and evolving practices, from French blogs to Vines from Australia, via the Arab Spring, Occupy, #jesuischarlie, Eurovision, #blacklivesmatter, Everyday Sexism, and #illridewithyou.

This timely book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars in media and communications, internet studies, and political science, as well as general readers keen to understand our contemporary media and political contexts.

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Zizi Papacharissi from the University of Illinois praises the book as essential for understanding evolving political expression through social media, noting its theoretical depth and analytical rigour. Gerard Goggin of the University of Sydney describes it as an excellent, comprehensive, and lively introduction to the subject, with well-analysed cases and a sharp authorial voice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780745691350

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Polity Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 333g

Pages: 220

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs Science & Nature Tim Highfield

About the Author

Tim Highfield is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Sessional Academic at Queensland University of Technology.