Understanding Reddit.
- First edition.
- [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2021.
- 1 online resource (120 pages).
- Routledge Focus on Digital Media and Culture .
Chapter 1: What is Reddit?Chapter 2: The Evolutions of RedditChapter 3: Reddit in ContextChapter 4: Identity on RedditChapter 5: Reddit and DemocracyChapter 6: Reddit as CommunityChapter 7: Reddit and JournalismChapter 8: Reddit as a Place
This book offers a comprehensive scholarly overview of Reddit, one of the most popular and least studied social platforms of the early 21st century. The book inspires new ways of thinking about it Reddit, considering it from multiple perspectives: through a historical lens, as a site where identity is forged, as a democracy, as a community, and as a news aggregator and distributor. By bringing theories from computer-mediated communication, communication studies, and sociology to bear on original, large-scale observational analyses of Reddit⁰́₉s communities, this book provides a uniquely comprehensive overview of the platform⁰́₉s first 15 years. Understanding Reddit will help us make sense of how rapidly growing communities function in an era of mass online anonymity. Serving both as a primer on how social behavior on Reddit plays out, and as a way of locating it within multiple theoretical traditions, the book will offer important insights to scholars and students in the disciplines of communication, media studies, information science, internet and emerging media studies, and sociology.