Thesis

          The book Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age is written by Dhiraj Murthy.  Throughout the book, Murthy helps the reader understand the basics of Twitter, what it is, and how it works.  Although Murthy gives both positive and negative consequences of social communication through Twitter, Murthy centers his argument around “Twitter has the potential to increase our awareness of others and to augment our spheres of knowledge, tapping us into a global network of individuals who are passionately giving us instant updates on topics and areas in which they are knowledgeable or participating in real-time” (p. X).  Murthy incorporates the ideas of the Network Society, the Knowledge Economy and social activism to support his central argument of the book.