| Description |
1 online resource (180 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 33 |
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Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 33.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: from the mechanical Turk to the digital housewife -- Sexts from Marxists and other stories from digital media's social factory -- My Marxist feminist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard : a feminist critique of the social factory -- Who says Facebook friends are not your real friends? : alienation and exploitation in digital media -- Gifts, commodities and the economics of affect -- I can haz false consciousness? : social reproduction and affective consumer labour -- Conclusion: beyond consumer labour -- Index |
| Summary |
There is a contradiction at the heart of digital media. We use commercial platforms to express our identity, to build community and to engage politically. At the same time, our status updates, tweets, videos, photographs and music files are free content for these sites. We are also generating an almost endless supply of user data that can be mined, re-purposed and sold to advertisers. As users of the commercial web, we are socially and creatively engaged, but also labourers, exploited by the companies that provide our communication platforms. How do we reconcile these contradictions? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Information society -- Social aspects
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Alienation (Social psychology)
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Feminism.
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Social media.
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Social Alienation
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Feminism
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Social Media
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feminism.
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social media.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Alienation (Social psychology)
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Feminism
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Information society -- Social aspects
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Social media
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781315720111 |
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1315720116 |
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