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Author: Sahana Udupa ,
Herman Wasserman
Publisher: New York University Press
Imprint: New York University Press
Weight: 0.653kg
ISBN: 9781479833269
ISBN 10: 1479833266
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 08 July 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Banal and familiar to its users but complex and ambiguous in its impact, WhatsApp’s closed doors make it harder to study than the darlings of digital platform research, Facebook and X. Undeterred, the authors of this volume make sense of its multiple ambivalences: how, for example, WhatsApp affords users private spaces while also serving as a channel for the broadcast of organised hate propaganda. This book represents a quantum leap in scholarly knowledge about of one the world’s most engaging communication platforms and the human networks it activates. * Cherian George, author of Fighting Polarisation *
""Banal and familiar to its users but complex and ambiguous in its impact, WhatsApp's closed doors make it harder to study than the darlings of digital platform research, Facebook and X. Undeterred, the authors of this volume make sense of its multiple ambivalences: how, for example, WhatsApp affords users private spaces while also serving as a channel for the broadcast of organised hate propaganda. This book represents a quantum leap in scholarly knowledge about of one the world's most engaging communication platforms and the human networks it activates."" (Cherian George, author of Fighting Polarisation) ""Two leading scholars of media, journalism, and disinformation have gathered a comprehensive collection of chapters that shed light on issues of burning importance globally. Their treatment of extremism, freedom of speech, and disinformation issues as they become manifest in the use of the universally popular WhatsApp is an undoubtedly original contribution to our understanding of the global struggle in which truth is assaulted from all sides. This volume is poised to become a classic reference for years to come, and a valuable tool in teaching and research."" (Marwan M. Kraidy, Northwestern University)
Author Information
Sahana Udupa (Editor) Sahana Udupa is Professor of Media Anthropology at the University of Munich (LMU) and author of Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics and co-author of Digital Unsettling: Decoloniality and Dispossession in the Age of Social Media. She is also coeditor of Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech and Media as Politics in South Asia. Herman Wasserman (Editor) Herman Wasserman is Professor of Journalism at Stellenbosch University. He is the author of Tabloid Journalism in South Africa; Media, Geopolitics, and Power: A View from the Global South; and The Ethics of Engagement: Media, Conflict and Democracy in Africa. He is also coeditor of Disinformation in the Global South.
