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Filling the void : emotion, capitalism and social media, Marcus Gilroy-Ware

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Filling the void : emotion, capitalism and social media
Title
Filling the void
Title remainder
emotion, capitalism and social media
Statement of responsibility
Marcus Gilroy-Ware
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be. Both the explosive growth of social media and the corresponding reconfiguration of the web from an information-based platform into an entertainment-based one are far more easily explained in terms of the subjective psychological experience of their users as capitalist subjects seeking 'depressive hedonia, ' the book argues. Filling the Void also interrogates the role of social media networks, designed for private commercial gain, as part of a de-facto public sphere. Both the decreasing subjective importance of factual media and the ways in which the content of the timeline are quietly manipulated--often using labour in the developing world and secret algorithms--have potentially serious implications for the capacity of social media users to query or challenge the seeming reality offered by the established hegemonic order
Cataloging source
NYP
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Gilroy-Ware, Marcus
Dewey number
302.23
Index
index present
LC call number
HF5415.1265
LC item number
.G556 2017
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Social media
  • Social media
  • Capitalism
  • Civilization
  • Consumption (Economics)
  • Press and politics
  • Communication in politics
  • Capitalism
  • Civilization
  • Communication in politics
  • Consumption (Economics)
  • Press and politics
  • Social media
  • Social media
Label
Filling the void : emotion, capitalism and social media, Marcus Gilroy-Ware
Instantiates
Publication
Copyright
Note
"A Repeater Books paperback original 2017"--Title page verso
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn983464232
Dimensions
20 cm
Extent
xiii, 224 pages
Isbn
9781910924945
Lccn
2017288622
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Label
Filling the void : emotion, capitalism and social media, Marcus Gilroy-Ware
Publication
Copyright
Note
"A Repeater Books paperback original 2017"--Title page verso
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Control code
ocn983464232
Dimensions
20 cm
Extent
xiii, 224 pages
Isbn
9781910924945
Lccn
2017288622
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n

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