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Jean Burgess,Nancy K. Baym

Twitter: A Biography

Twitter: A Biography

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Digital platforms have become influential in communication, bringing new opportunities for progressive communities and problems with commercial exploitation, disinformation, and hate speech. Twitter's growth has surpassed its creators vision, charting its trajectory as a platform biography. Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym build a narrative of how Twitter has evolved as a technology, company, and culture, from its origins as a personal messaging service to one of the most globally influential social media platforms.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 19 February 2022
Publisher: New York University Press


Digital platforms have become increasingly influential in all spheres of communication, from the intimate and everyday to the public, professional, and political. Since the scrappy startup days of social media in the mid-2000s, not only has the worldwide importance of platforms grown exponentially, but their cultures have shifted dramatically, in a variety of directions. These changes have brought new opportunities for progressive communities to thrive online, as well as widespread problems with commercial exploitation, disinformation, and hate speech.

Twitter's growth over the past decade has far surpassed its creators' vision.

Twitter charts this trajectory in the format of a platform biography: a new, streamlined approach to understanding how platforms change over time. Through the often surprising, fast-moving story of Twitter, it illuminates the multiple forces—from politics and business to digital ideologies—that came together to shape the evolution of this revolutionary platform. Jean Burgess and Nancy K. Baym build a rich narrative of how Twitter has evolved as a technology, a company, and a culture, from its origins as a personal messaging service to its transformation into one of the most globally influential social media platforms, where history and culture are not only recorded but written in real time.

Weight: 208g
Dimension: 144 x 216 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781479801756

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