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The Spectacle of Online Life.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The Frankfurt School in New Times.
- The Frankfurt School in New Times
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Online social networks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2025.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- The Spectacle of Online Life explores digital paradoxes-connection and isolation, empowerment and control-through topics like influencer culture, AI moderation, and online conspiracies.
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Screens and Spectacles: The New Digital Terrain of Connection and Control Christopher T. Conner, Matthew N. Hannah, Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo Chapter 2: Culture Industry, Participatory Industry: How a Lack of Transparency in Social Media Deepens the Postmodern Crisis of Consciousness Elizabeth Blakey Chapter 3: Living in the Shop Window: Spectacle, Consumption, and Conflict in Promotional Livestreaming Lizhen Zhao, Alkim Yalin, and Emily West Chapter 4: Conspiracy Theories and the Spectacle of Climate Change Matthew N. Hannah Chapter 5: Ground Beneath the Echo Chamber: Forms of Life and Existential Needs Jeremiah Morelock, Gordon C. Chang, and Crystal Lee Ward Chapter 6: Mass Celebrity and Micro-Spectacle Charles Thorpe and Sam Smith Chapter 7: The Ubiquity of Networked Life: A Critical Environmental Analysis Jessica Pardee and Vincent Serravallo Chapter 8: Open Access vs. the Prestige Machine David Arditi Chapter 9: Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective Christian Fuchs Chapter 10: Shoppable Self as Spectacle: Precarious Identity Making of Beauty Influencers in China Zepeng Zhou Chapter 11: Online Violence and Radicalization Matthew Costello and James Hawdon Chapter 12: The Spectacle of Digital Waste: Spectacular Reassurance Strategies and the Material Impacts of the Digital Data System Nicholas Baxter Chapter 13: The Gay Gayze, Reconsidered: Expressions of Inequality on Grindr Christopher T. Conner Index About the Editors and Contributors
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8189-437-5
- 979-82-16-26465-1
- OCLC:
- 1546961387
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