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1 online resource (xxv, 167 pages) |
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Critical, digital and social media studies (CDSMS) |
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CDSMS (Series)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : What is online social capital? -- Online social capital as social -- Online social capital as capital -- Capitalism and the ideologies of the social -- From accumulation to alienation : Marx and Veblen -- Alienation 2.0 : symptoms of narcissism and aggression -- The network spectacle -- Conclusion. |
| 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." |
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English. |
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Social capital (Sociology)
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Social media and society.
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Alienation (Social psychology)
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Critical theory.
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Social Alienation |
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Capital social (Sociologie)
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Aliénation (Psychologie sociale)
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Médias sociaux et société.
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Technologie de l'information -- Aspect social.
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Théorie critique.
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critical theories (dialectical critiques)
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critical theory (sociological concept)
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Social & political philosophy.
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Society & culture: general.
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Cultural studies.
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Popular culture.
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Social theory.
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Political economy.
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Social media and society
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Alienation (Social psychology)
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Critical theory
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Information technology -- Social aspects
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Social capital (Sociology)
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| Indexed Term |
Alienation |
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Social capital |
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Neoliberalism |
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Digital capitalism |
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Accumulation |
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Digital sociology |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781911534563 |
| ISBN |
9781911534570 (electronic bk.) |
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1911534572 (electronic bk.) |
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9781911534563 (electronic bk.) |
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1911534564 (electronic bk.) |
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9781911534587 (electronic bk.) |
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1911534580 (electronic bk.) |
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9781911534594 (electronic bk.) |
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1911534599 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard No. |
10.16997/book16 doi |
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UKMGB 019437739 |
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AU@ 000063971598 |
