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taina bucher
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Names: Bucher, Taina, author.
Title: Facebook / Taina Bucher.
Description: Medford : Polity Press, 2021. | Series: Digital media and society | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “How Facebook came to be, how it works, and why it is more powerful than ever”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020047168 (print) | LCCN 2020047169 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509535163 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509535170 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509535187 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Facebook (Electronic resource) | Online social networks. | Social networks--Computer network resources.
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Acknowledgements
The writing of this book is hugely indebted to senior editor at Polity Press, Mary Savigar. If Mary hadn’t approached me at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference in late 2017 to pitch this project to me, I would never have embarked on it in the first place. I never envisioned myself writing an entire book about Facebook. Like so many of my peers, I was already quite fed up with Facebook. What more was there to say, I thought? As it turned out, quite a lot. Once I distanced myself from thinking of Facebook as a social media platform or social network site only, entire swathes of infrastructural activities became apparent. Sometimes chance encounters that plant the right seeds can be quite life-changing, as my brief meeting with Mary demonstrates. Mary, thanks for thinking of me for this project and for allowing me to prove myself wrong: Facebook is an immensely fascinating phenomenon. It has been an absolute pleasure to write this book, keeping me company amid some happy and challenging life events as Facebook calls them: childbirth, change of jobs, moving countries, pandemic. Thank you to Ellen MacDonald-Kramer and the rest of the Polity Press team for guiding me through the editorial and production process.
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