Sleepwalker's Guide to Social Media

Positing online users as ''sleepwalkers'', Tony Sampson offers an original and compelling approach for understanding how social media platforms produce subjectivities.

Drawing on a wide range of theorists, including A.N. Whitehead and Gabriel Tarde, he provides tools to track his sleepwalker through the ''dark refrain of social media'': a refrain that spreads through viral platform architectures wi...