Social capital online : alienation and accumulation / Kane X. Faucher.
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TextSeries: CDSMS (Series)Publication details: London : University of Westminster Press, 2018.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 167 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
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- 1911534572
- 1911534580
- 1911534599
- 9781911534563
- 9781911534570
- 9781911534587
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- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Critical theory
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Social capital (Sociology)
- Social media -- Social aspects
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Critical theory
- Cultural studies
- Information technology -- Social aspects
- Political economy
- Popular culture
- Social & political philosophy
- Social capital (Sociology)
- Social theory
- Society & culture: general
- Accumulation
- Alienation
- Digital capitalism
- Digital sociology
- Neoliberalism
- Social capital
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- HM851 .F38 2018eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index.
"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."
English.
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