Becoming-social in a networked age / Neal Thomas.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-186) and index.

This book examines the semiotic effects of protocols and algorithms at work in popular social media systems, bridging philosophical conversations in human-computer interaction (HCI) and information systems (IS) design in contemporary work in critical media, technology and software studies. Where most research into social media is sociological in scope, Neal Thomas shows how the underlying material-semiotic operations of social media now crucially define what it means to be social in a networked age. He proposed that we consider social media platforms as computional processes of collective individuation that produce, rather than presume, forms of subjectivity and sociality. -- Provided by publisher.