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In the 2010s, as messaging apps replaced SMS to become the main
communication technologies for millions of people around the world,
WhatsApp rose above its rivals to become a global communication
platform. In this book, Amelia Johns, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernandez
and Emma Baulch provide a comprehensive account of WhatsApp’s
global growth. They begin with its emergence from a messaging app
to its purchase by Meta in 2014, which, they argue, transformed
WhatsApp from a simple, ‘gimmickless’ app into a global
communication platform. Understanding this development can shed
light on the current status of WhatsApp in relation to rivals, the
trajectory of Meta’s industrial development, and how global
digital economies and social media landscapes are evolving with the
rise of ‘Superapps’. This book explores how WhatsApp’s unique
characteristics mediate new kinds of social and commercial
transactions, how they pose new opportunities and challenges for
platform regulation, civic participation and democracy, and how
they give rise to new kinds of digital literacy as WhatsApp becomes
integrated into everyday digital cultures across the globe.
Accessibly written, this book is an essential resource for students
and scholars of digital media, cultural studies, and media and
communications, as well as anyone interested in the emergence and
growth of WhatsApp.
In the 2010s, as messaging apps replaced SMS to become the main
communication technologies for millions of people around the world,
WhatsApp rose above its rivals to become a global communication
platform. In this book, Amelia Johns, Ariadna Matamoros-Fernandez
and Emma Baulch provide a comprehensive account of WhatsApp’s
global growth. They begin with its emergence from a messaging app
to its purchase by Meta in 2014, which, they argue, transformed
WhatsApp from a simple, ‘gimmickless’ app into a global
communication platform. Understanding this development can shed
light on the current status of WhatsApp in relation to rivals, the
trajectory of Meta’s industrial development, and how global
digital economies and social media landscapes are evolving with the
rise of ‘Superapps’. This book explores how WhatsApp’s unique
characteristics mediate new kinds of social and commercial
transactions, how they pose new opportunities and challenges for
platform regulation, civic participation and democracy, and how
they give rise to new kinds of digital literacy as WhatsApp becomes
integrated into everyday digital cultures across the globe.
Accessibly written, this book is an essential resource for students
and scholars of digital media, cultural studies, and media and
communications, as well as anyone interested in the emergence and
growth of WhatsApp.
With pervasive use of mobile devices and social media, there is a
constant tension between the promise of new forms of social
engagement and the threat of misuse and misappropriation, or the
risk of harm and harassment. Negotiating Digital Citizenship
explores the diversity of experiences that define digital
citizenship. These range from democratic movements that advocate
social change via social media platforms to the realities of online
abuse, racial or sexual intolerance, harassment and stalking. Young
people, educators, social service providers and government
authorities have become increasingly enlisted in a new push to
define and perform 'good' digital citizenship, yet there is little
consensus on what this term really means and sparse analysis of the
vested interests that drive its definition. The chapters probe the
idea of digital citizenship, map its use among policy makers,
educators, and activists, and identify avenues for putting the
concept to use in improving the digital environments and digitally
enabled tenets of contemporary social life. The components of
digital citizenship are dissected through questions of control over
our online environments, the varieties of contest and activism and
possibilities of digital culture and creativity.
With pervasive use of mobile devices and social media, there is a
constant tension between the promise of new forms of social
engagement and the threat of misuse and misappropriation, or the
risk of harm and harassment. Negotiating Digital Citizenship
explores the diversity of experiences that define digital
citizenship. These range from democratic movements that advocate
social change via social media platforms to the realities of online
abuse, racial or sexual intolerance, harassment and stalking. Young
people, educators, social service providers and government
authorities have become increasingly enlisted in a new push to
define and perform 'good' digital citizenship, yet there is little
consensus on what this term really means and sparse analysis of the
vested interests that drive its definition. The chapters probe the
idea of digital citizenship, map its use among policy makers,
educators, and activists, and identify avenues for putting the
concept to use in improving the digital environments and digitally
enabled tenets of contemporary social life. The components of
digital citizenship are dissected through questions of control over
our online environments, the varieties of contest and activism and
possibilities of digital culture and creativity.
Ten years after the Cronulla riots, the violence, racism and
branding of young bodies with signs and symbols of Australian
nationalism, along with the reprisal attacks by Lebanese-Australian
youth, continues to inflame discussions about race relations in
Australia, with many conversations shifting away from ideas of
multiculturalism and cultural diversity, and towards patriotism,
localism, security and fear of the (predominantly) Muslim 'Other'.
Battle for the Flag contextualises and challenges the narrative by
drawing upon participant observation and interviews conducted with
local residents of diverse backgrounds. By paying attention to the
voices of bystanders and those involved, the riot is identified as
an unstable and fluid formation, where the Australian flag, the
beach and whiteness itself was co-opted into a much more
contingent, contested and subcultural formation than hitherto
described.
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