ISBN:
9781138808768
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (235 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Advances in Sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Critical Theory and Social Media : Between Emancipation and Commodification
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are enormously popular: they are continuously ranked among the most frequently accessed websites worldwide. However there are as yet few studies which combine critical theoretical and empirical research in the context of digital and social media. The aim of this book is to study the constraints and emancipatory potentials of new media and to assess to what extent digital and social media can contribute to strengthen the idea of the communication and network commons, and a commons-based information society. Based on a critical theory
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Introduction; Part I Theoretical foundations; 1 Critical theory and dialectics; Introduction; Foundational concepts of a critical theory of media, technology, and society; The dialectics of productive forces and relations of production; Conclusion: means of communication as means of production; 2 Critical Internet and social media studies; Introduction; Foundations of Internet and social media studies; Towards a critical theory of the Internet and social media
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: ideology and commodity critique3 Critical (Internet) privacy studies: ideology critique; Introduction; Foundations of (Internet) privacy studies; Towards a critical theory of (Internet) privacy; Conclusion: capitalist privacy threats vs. corporate privacy protection; 4 Critical (Internet) surveillance studies: commodity critique; Introduction; Foundations of (Internet) surveillance studies; Towards a critical theory of (Internet) surveillance; Conclusion: capitalist surveillance vs. counter- surveillance; Part II Case study
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Traditional and critical research of privacy and surveillance on social mediaIntroduction; Traditional research of privacy on social media; Critical research of surveillance on social media; Conclusion: a critical empirical study of privacy and surveillance on social media; 6 Empirical results: (dis)advantages of social media; Introduction; General characteristics of the respondents; Advantages of social networking sites; Disadvantages of social networking sites; Conclusion; Part III Techno-social revolution; 7 Critical theory, dialectics, and the (dis)advantages of social media
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionFoundational concepts of a critical theory of media, technology, and society and the (dis)advantages of social media; The dialectics of productive forces and relations of production and the (dis)advantages of social media; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion; Technological constraints; Technological potentials; Social potentials; Social contraints; (Dis)like Facebook? Communication and network commons; Commons-based information society; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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