Social Capital Online

"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 i...

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Autor principal: Faucher, Kane
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description "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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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-369612025-01-29T11:03:55Z Social Capital Online Faucher, Kane Alienation social capital neoliberalism digital capitalism accumulation digital sociology Commodity Labour economics Narcissism Thorstein Veblen thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy "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." 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-07-09 23:55 2019-01-17 11:36:31 2020-04-01T12:36:26Z 2018 book 1000232 OCN: 1051778205 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29712 9781911534563; 9781911534570; 9781911534587; 9781911534594 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36961 eng Critical Digital and Social Media Studies open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29712/1/UWP-020-faucher.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29712/1/UWP-020-faucher.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29712/1/UWP-020-faucher.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/29712/1/UWP-020-faucher.pdf University of Westminster Press 10.16997/book16 10.16997/book16 ebf00090-01f8-4204-9e78-018b9f254c60 9781911534563; 9781911534570; 9781911534587; 9781911534594 194 open access
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social capital
neoliberalism
digital capitalism
accumulation
digital sociology
Commodity
Labour economics
Narcissism
Thorstein Veblen
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Faucher, Kane
Social Capital Online
title Social Capital Online
title_full Social Capital Online
title_fullStr Social Capital Online
title_full_unstemmed Social Capital Online
title_short Social Capital Online
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topic Alienation
social capital
neoliberalism
digital capitalism
accumulation
digital sociology
Commodity
Labour economics
Narcissism
Thorstein Veblen
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTS Social and political philosophy
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
topic_facet Alienation
social capital
neoliberalism
digital capitalism
accumulation
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Commodity
Labour economics
Narcissism
Thorstein Veblen
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC1 Popular culture
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory
thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCP Political economy
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