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Social Capital Online : Alienation and Accumulation

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Critical Digital and Social Media StudiesPublisher: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : University of Westminster Press, 2018Description: 1 Online-Ressource (194 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781911534570
  • 9781911534587
  • 9781911534594
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9781911534563 | Erscheint auch als: 9781911534563 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 303.48/33 23
LOC classification:
  • HM851
Online resources: Summary: "What is ‘social capital’? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social interactions into quantifiable metrics for easier processing, prediction, and behavioural shaping. A work of critical media studies, Social Capital Online examines the idea within the new ‘network spectacle’ of digital capitalism via the ideas of Marx, Veblen, Debord, Baudrillard and Deleuze. Explaining how such phenomena as online narcissism and aggression arise, Faucher offers a new theoretical understanding of how the spectacularisation of online activity perfectly aligns with the value system of neoliberalism and its data worship. Even so, at the centre of all, lie familiar ideas – alienation and accumulation – new conceptions of which he argues are vital for understanding today’s digital society."PPN: PPN: 177854360XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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