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Governing Babel

The Debate over Social Media Platforms and Free Speech—and What Comes Next

by John P. Wihbey

ISBN: 9780262049917

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 7, 2025

Why social media platforms have a responsibility to look after their platforms, how they can achieve the transparency needed, and what they should do when harms arise.

Social Media Archeology and Poetics

Edited by Judy Malloy

ISBN: 9780262052979

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 27, 2025

First person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media.

Streaming by the Rest of Us

Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch

by Mia Consalvo, Marc Lajeunesse and Andrei Zanescu

ISBN: 9780262552158

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 18, 2025

An in-depth investigation of the Twitch streamers who make up the largest population on the platform: those streaming to small audiences or even no one.

Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age

Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload

by Richard E. Cytowic

ISBN: 9780262049009

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 1, 2024

An award-winning neurologist on the Stone-Age roots of our screen addictions, and what to do about them.

Dependent, Distracted, Bored

Affective Formations in Networked Media

by Susanna Paasonen

ISBN: 9780262045674

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 20, 2021

A new approach to understanding the culture of ubiquitous connectivity, arguing that our dependence on networked infrastructure does not equal addiction.

You Are Here

A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape

by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner

ISBN: 9780262539913

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 2, 2021

How to understand a media environment in crisis, and how to make things better by approaching information ecologically.

Who's Laughing Now?

Feminist Tactics in Social Media

by Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen

ISBN: 9780262044721

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: November 24, 2020

Feminist social media tactics that use humor as a form of resistance to misogyny, rewiring the dynamics of shame, shaming, and shamelessness.

#HashtagActivism

Networks of Race and Gender Justice

by Sarah J. Jackson, Moya Bailey and Brooke Foucault Welles

Foreword by Genie Lauren

ISBN: 9780262043373

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: March 10, 2020

This “well-researched, nuanced” study of the rise of social media activism explores how marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent. (Ms.)