Blog Post 5 Prompt
For this blog post you must respond to the following prompt (no commentary posts this week).
Your reading for November 15th required you to read a trade book about social media and marketing. Your blog post this week should be a review of the book, which considers the book's value in light of what you now know about culture and social media technologies from taking this course. Your review should include the title and author as well as a link to the book online (e.g. a Google Books page or Amazon listing). You should very briefly summarize the book's points. The bulk of your review should be a critical analysis of the book. You may want to consider the methods used by the author to arrive at the findings (are they adequate? are the arguments trustworthy based on the evidence offered?). You may want to think about what the book does not address - what important issues might be missing? How might the author go about incorporating them into his or her analysis? You are strongly encouraged to put the book in conversation with authors we have read throughout the course. How might danah boyd, Nancy Baym, David Beer, Sarah Banet-Weiser, or any of the other authors react to this book? Offer references to these authors' works to back up any claims you make.
Your post is due by 9am on November 22nd (note that I have given you an extra week past the due date on the syllabus). For extra credit, you may upload your review to a popular book review site such as Amazon or Google Books. Include a link to your online review in your post in order to receive this extra credit.