This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by
Far from being neutral, social media platforms – such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and WeChat – possess their own material characteristics, which shape ho
This book critically interrogates the relationship between social media and protest from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the multiple ways in which
Drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in