"If, like me, you were caught off guard by the sudden currency of "cloud computing"...the three-volume Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics is the reference work for you....The first volume provides a handy chronology of how social media evolved....As promised in the encyclopedia's title, there is plenty of politics between these six covers...."
"Media anthropologist Harvey's pioneering work on the burgeoning role of social media in politics provides a useful, eclectic foray into still-uncharted and often hard-to-navigate waters. ...VERDICT: The proliferation of social media has so profoundly changed the landscape of political communication that a treatise of this nature is long overdue. Recommended for both general readers and social scientists from a variety of disciplines."
"This set skillfully and expansively canvasses the increasingly ubiquitous topic of social media and its relationship to both the American political process and the organization of politics in U.S. society. ...The Encyclopedia of Social Media and Politics has roundly succeeded in surveying the current state of the field and provided students of the topic a one-stop shop of digestible information. Recommended for high-school and undergraduate collections." *Starred review.
"...This encyclopedia will be a useful resource for academic and public libraries supporting programmes, organizations and interests in communications, media, political science and information science."
“Organized along the same clean lines as a number of other SAGE encyclopedias published recently, the set (also available online) will be welcomed in public and academic libraries, as well as in many high school libraries..."
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