“Matassi and Boczkowski's comparative insights from around the world invite us to contemplate new and ambitious pathways for social media research.”
Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics; coauthor of Parenting for a Digital Future
“An innovative, much-needed perspective on comparative media research and how it should be done.”
José van Dijck, Utrecht University; coauthor of The Platform Society
“The authors deftly systematize the 'comparative imagination.' Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand—and change—our complex mediated world.”
Rodney Benson, New York University; author of Shaping Immigration News
“Innovative in approach and accessible in style, this book amplifies research engaged with the major questions in the field and our worlds.”
Amanda D. Lotz, Queensland University of Technology; author of Media Disrupted (MIT Press)
“Highly recommended... To Know Is to Compare will continue to be relevant for years to come.”
Choice
“This book offers a welcome resource, laying out an agenda for comparative social media research with compelling examples and clear language that should be accessible to readers across different subfields of communication and different levels of experience.”
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
“This text would be helpful to any scholar or researcher who is interested in studying social media and wants to take a little-used approach.”
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
“To Know Is to Compare ought to spark an important conversation among social media scholars in fields like communication, media studies, and sociology about how we really know what we know, and how we might know better moving forward.”
Contemporary Sociology
Winner, 2024 Global Communication and Social Change Book Award, International Communication Association (ICA)
