Lecturer in the Department of Communication, The hebrew University of Jerusalem. @nicholasajohn
n.john@huji.ac.il
Last month, Culture Digitally shared an excerpt from The Age of Sharing, the new book from Nicholas John. Below, several CD contributors reflect on the aims of the book, and its resonance with related concerns. Nik offers a brief response at the end. The book is now available in the U.S. as well as around the […]
I’m delighted to post an excerpt from my new book, The Age of Sharing, which is published by Polity today. (Actually, it’s published today in the UK and most of the world, and on December 19 in the US and Australia and New Zealand, but don’t let that stop you ordering it.) Below you’ll find an excerpt […]
Tranlated by Andrea Alarcon and Hector Postigo La forma académica, en los estudios de medios, de abordar el tema de terminar amistades en Facebook por motivos políticos sería comenzar la conversación hablando de la brecha en la literatura existente, la cuál este estudio llena. Definitivamente ay un vacío: a pesar de una enorme cantidad de […]
Major events of national importance reverberate throughout many levels of social life. They are discussed in the corridors of formal power, and in conversations by the water cooler. They also inspire an intensification of activity on social media. One of these activities is unfriending. Unfriending is a relatively under-researched social media practice, but it would […]
The academic way to introduce the topic of politically-motivated unfriending on Facebook would be to talk about the gap in the literature that the study of it fills. And it does fill a gap: despite an enormous body of literature that endeavors to explain what the internet has done and is doing to politics (and, […]