Is Data the New Coal? - Four Issues with Christian Fuchs on Social Media

Abstract

In the first part of this essay I will briefly review Social Media itself, introducing the main arguments and pointing out the benefits and shortcomings of the book. In the main part, I want to concentrate on four major issues that Fuchs addresses in Social Media and in other publications. These issues are likely to inform debates about social media in a broad range of disciplines and they are pertinent to any critique or theory of social media in contemporary societies...