Reseña/Review (Gehl, R., "Reverse engineering social media: software, culture and political economy in new media capitalism", Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, ISBN 978 1 43991 035 1, 236 págs., 2014)

Javier de Rivera

Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism.

Javier de Rivera Complutense University of Madrid

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Keywords: Real abstraction, Marxian analysis, alienation processes, social networking

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Book Review: Gehl, R. (2014). Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism.Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

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Javier de Rivera, Complutense University of Madrid

Sociologist, PhD candidate, co-editor of Teknokultura and member of the Research Group Cibersomosaguas

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de Rivera, J. (2015). Reverse Engineering Social Media: Software, Culture and Political Economy in New Media Capitalism. Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital Y Movimientos Sociales, 12(1), 211-221. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/TEKN/article/view/48899

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Vol. 12 No. 1 (2015): Hypothesis Podemos: dialogues, debates

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