{"product_id":"9781509537419","title":"A Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media","description":"\u003cp\u003ePositing online users as 'sleepwalkers', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produce subjectivities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt a time in which social media is influencing more people than ever, A Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media is an important reference for students and scholars of media theory, digital media and social media.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Pr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48222725013739,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":45.68,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781509537419-1.jpg?v=1781685719","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781509537419","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}