Interconnected World, Lost Connections: The Amoebic World of Social Media [Paperback]

This book offers a comprehensive account of social media as a tool for connecting the world, and how its ameboid growth pattern has led it to where it is today. It articulates a specific theme, beginning with foundational concepts, followed by an in-depth analysis of the current scenario and its associated challenges.

1.???? Social Media and the New Social Contract??2.???? Taming the Leviathan: The Complexities of Regulation

3.???? ?Challenges to the Right to Privacy??4.???? Connecting Jokes and Memes with Politics??5.???? Rising Mistrust in Information Age??6.???? Socio-Political Networking for Festivals??7.???? Crisis Communication and Response Through Social Media During Disaster??8.???? New Currency of Life??9.???? Empowering Governance Through Social Media??10.? Infinite Web, Limited Education??11.? Lost Connections in an Interconnected World??12.? The Complex?World of Social Media: A Way Forward

Annexure

This book offers a comprehensive account of social media as a tool for connecting the world, and how its amoeboid growth pattern has led it to where it is today. Fuelled by rapid advances in communication technologies, social media platforms are gradually revolutionising the way billions of users communicate and share content worldwide on the web. They have become the fulcrum of the interconnected world in the present century. The book articulates a specific theme, beginning with foundational concepts, followed by an in-depth analysis of the current scenario and its associated challenges.

This book explores both the promise and the pitfalls of social media. From its role in participatory politics, crowd-sourced crisis rels!