Digital Media, Sharing and Everyday Life (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture)

Sharing is an important form of communication, and one that is championed in contemporary digital culture. This book asks what is sharing, and what roles do our digital devices and the platforms we use such as Facebook and Twitter play in these practices? Drawing on original empirical data, this timely book reveals detailed descriptions of the symbolic processes of sharing in digital culture and the complexities that arise in them. It draws out the relationship of sharing to privacy and control, the laboured strategies and boundaries of reciprocation, and our relationships with the technologies which mediate sharing practices.