Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal

Taylor-Smith, Ella

Abstract

Jose Marichal’s investigation into Facebook, as a setting for democracy and potential influence on the public sphere, identifies something special about Facebook that both makes it popular and unique, even among social networking sites. This enables him to focus on the use and potential repercussions of Face- book specifically, freshening familiar discourse about the relationship between Internet use and demo- cratic activity.

Citation

Taylor-Smith, E. (2013). Review of Facebook Democracy. The Architecture of Disclosure and the Threat to Public Life by J.Marichal. Information Polity, 18, 367-370. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130318

• Journal Article Type: Book Review
• Publication Date: 2013
• Deposit Date: Feb 27, 2014
• Journal: Information Polity
• Print ISSN: 1570-1255
• Publisher: IOS Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 18
• Pages: 367-370
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-130318
• Keywords: Facebook; Jose Marichal; social networking; democracy; "architecture of disclosure"
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6600
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/IP-130318