At last an innovative contribution that critically evaluates the interplay between software and user interaction on social network sites. Eisenlauer's Critical Hypertext Analysis is admirably suited to unmask Facebook as an ideological tool in the digital age. The analysis reveals convincingly that Facebook software heavily imposes on the communicative practices of its users, depriving them of basic authorial rights in the generation and reception of text, pictures and meaning. A must-read for all those interested in how Facebook affects your life. Highly recommended! -- Wolfram Bublitz, Professor of English Linguistics, Universitat Augsburg, Germany In this highly original work, Volker Eisenlauer develops an insightful Critical Hypertext Analysis, based on a thorough examination of existing concepts and their revised definitions in linguistics and related fields. He offers a novel type of analysis of Facebook's users' communicative text actions that are conditioned by the technological and ideological c...