Social Media and Society

An Introduction to the Mass Media Landscape

Author: Regina Luttrell and Adrienne A. Wallace

Exploring social media's integration with modern society, this text empowers students as social media consumers and creators. The thoroughly updated second edition includes a new chapter on AI technologies. Features include full color visuals; glossary; chapter questions and activities; and theory, ethics, and diversity and inclusion boxes.

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New and seasoned professors will appreciate the relevant and timely critical analyses of established and new brands, connection of theory with action, and highlighted examples from popular culture and contemporary issues such as AI. I highly recommend this book.

--Mark Congdon Jr., Sacred Heart University

If you're looking for a textbook that centers the learner, highlights theory, and links current theory and practice, this text is a great fit.

--Tiffany R. Wang, University of Montevallo

This clear and approachable book starts from the ground up to explain social media in a way that any student can understand. The second edition adds essential new content on AI, as well as ethics and diversity.

--Margaret Murray, University of Michigan-Dearborn

About the Author

Regina Luttrell is senior associate dean of research and creative activities and associate professor of public relations at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She is also the co-director of Real Chemistry Emerging Insights Lab. A contributor to PR Tactics and PR News as well as peer-reviewed journals, she is a noted speaker as well as a Knight Foundation Tow Journalism Fellow. She has authored several books, including Social Media: How to Engage, Share, and Connect; Public Relations Campaigns: An Integrated Approach; The PR Agency Handbook; and The Millennial Mindset: Unraveling Fact from Fiction.

Adrienne A. Wallace is associate professor at Grand Valley State University, where she teaches courses in advertising and public relations. Adrienne has more than 22 years of professional experience in both the public and private sectors, including nonprofit, health, education, government, hospitality, politics, lobbying, and finance. She is a Kopenhaver Center Fellow, a frequent contributor to industry publications, and a conference speaker on all things related to digital/social media strategy, student-run firms, and experiential learning design.