Social Media Theory: Bibliography
Publications available as audiobooks and ebooks are indicated; you’re encouraged to use either format.
Open Access publications are linked; individual chapters can be downloaded in PDF format.
Baym, Nancy K. (2017). Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection. New York: New York University Press. ISBN: 978-1479821587.
Bernard, Andreas (2019). The Triumph of Profiling: The Self in Digital Culture. Trans. Valentine A. Pakis. Cambridge: Polity Press. Originally published as Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes. Das Selbst in der digitalen Kultur. ISBN: 978-1509536306.
(Audiobook) Brennan, Matthew (2021). Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China’s ByteDance. Independently published. ASIN :B08L3NW6VM.
(Ebook) Berland, Jody. (2019). Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Ebook: ASIN: B08BTCZ23P.
(Ebook) Boffone, Trevor, ed. (2022). TikTok Cultures in the United States. New York: Routledge. Kindle: ASIN: B0B9WKGT9N. ISBN: 978-1032249162.
boyd, danah, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014).
Bruckman, Amy, Should You Believe Wikipedia? Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Brunton, Finn, and Helen Nissenbaum, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016).
Coleman, Gabriella, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (London and New York: Verso, 2014).
Dederer, Claire, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023).
Humphreys, Lee (2018). The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262538954.
Jackson, Sarah J., Moya Bailey, et al., #Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020).
(Audiobook) Lagorio-Chafkin, Christine (2018). We Are The Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory. New York: Hachette Books. ISBN: 978-0316435406. Audiobook: ASIN: B07H5Q5JGS.
Lobato, Ramon (2019). Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution. New York: New York University Press. ISBN: 978-1479804948.
Losh, Elizabeth (2022). Selfie Democracy: The New Digital Politics of Disruption and Insurrection. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lotz, Amanda D. (2022). Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN: 978-1509552955.
Marcus, Gary, & Ernest Davis, Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (New York: Pantheon Books, 2019).
(Audiobook) McNeil, Joanne (2020). Lurking: How A Person Became A User. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. ISBN: 978-1250785756.
Nagle, Angela, Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (Alresford, Hampshire, UK: Zero Books, 2017).
Cathy O’Neil, with Stephen Baker, The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation (New York: Crown/Random House, 2022).
Phillips, Whitney, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015).
Phillips, Whitney, and Ryan M. Milner, You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021).
Richardson, Allissa V, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
Taylor, T.L. (2018). Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 978-0691183558.
Veale, Tony, and Mike Cook (2018). Twitterbots: Making Machines That Make Meaning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262037907.
Wang, Jing (2019). The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 978-0674980921.
(Audiobook) Weinstein, Emily, and Carrie James (2022). Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (And Adults Are Missing). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262047357.
White, Michele (2022). Touch Screen Theory: Digital Devices and Feelings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262544689.
Social Media Theory: Bibliography
Publications available as audiobooks and ebooks are indicated; you’re encouraged to use either format.
Open Access publications are linked; individual chapters can be downloaded in PDF format.
Baym, Nancy K. (2017). Playing to the Crowd: Musicians, Audiences, and the Intimate Work of Connection. New York: New York University Press. ISBN: 978-1479821587.
Bernard, Andreas (2019). The Triumph of Profiling: The Self in Digital Culture. Trans. Valentine A. Pakis. Cambridge: Polity Press. Originally published as Komplizen des Erkennungsdienstes. Das Selbst in der digitalen Kultur. ISBN: 978-1509536306.
(Audiobook) Brennan, Matthew (2021). Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China’s ByteDance. Independently published. ASIN :B08L3NW6VM.
(Ebook) Berland, Jody. (2019). Virtual Menageries: Animals as Mediators in Network Cultures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Ebook: ASIN: B08BTCZ23P.
(Ebook) Boffone, Trevor, ed. (2022). TikTok Cultures in the United States. New York: Routledge. Kindle: ASIN: B0B9WKGT9N. ISBN: 978-1032249162.
boyd, danah, It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014).
Bruckman, Amy, Should You Believe Wikipedia? Online Communities and the Construction of Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Brunton, Finn, and Helen Nissenbaum, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016).
Coleman, Gabriella, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (London and New York: Verso, 2014).
Dederer, Claire, Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023).
Humphreys, Lee (2018). The Qualified Self: Social Media and the Accounting of Everyday Life. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262538954.
Jackson, Sarah J., Moya Bailey, et al., #Hashtag Activism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2020).
(Audiobook) Lagorio-Chafkin, Christine (2018). We Are The Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory. New York: Hachette Books. ISBN: 978-0316435406. Audiobook: ASIN: B07H5Q5JGS.
Lobato, Ramon (2019). Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution. New York: New York University Press. ISBN: 978-1479804948.
Losh, Elizabeth (2022). Selfie Democracy: The New Digital Politics of Disruption and Insurrection. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Lotz, Amanda D. (2022). Netflix and Streaming Video: The Business of Subscriber-Funded Video on Demand. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN: 978-1509552955.
Marcus, Gary, & Ernest Davis, Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust (New York: Pantheon Books, 2019).
(Audiobook) McNeil, Joanne (2020). Lurking: How A Person Became A User. New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux. ISBN: 978-1250785756.
Nagle, Angela, Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (Alresford, Hampshire, UK: Zero Books, 2017).
Cathy O’Neil, with Stephen Baker, The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation (New York: Crown/Random House, 2022).
Phillips, Whitney, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015).
Phillips, Whitney, and Ryan M. Milner, You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2021).
Richardson, Allissa V, Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020).
Taylor, T.L. (2018). Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN: 978-0691183558.
Veale, Tony, and Mike Cook (2018). Twitterbots: Making Machines That Make Meaning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262037907.
Wang, Jing (2019). The Other Digital China: Nonconfrontational Activism on the Social Web. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 978-0674980921.
(Audiobook) Weinstein, Emily, and Carrie James (2022). Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (And Adults Are Missing). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262047357.
White, Michele (2022). Touch Screen Theory: Digital Devices and Feelings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262544689.