Spectacle of Online Life

AvDanielle Antoinette Hidalgo,Christopher T. Conner

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

The Spectacle of Online Life offers a groundbreaking exploration of the digital age's most pressing paradoxes: connection and isolation, democratization and control, authenticity and performance. Edited by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, Christopher T. Conner, and Matthew N. Hannah, this volume assembles a diverse array of scholars to critically examine how online technologies shape, reflect, and amplify the complexities of modern society.Chapters in the text draw on insights from the Frankfurt School, Situationist International, and contemporary media studies. This collection delves into topics as varied as promotional livestreaming, climate change conspiracy theories, beauty influencer culture, and the role of artificial intelligence in content moderation. As the authors show, digital platforms are a double-edged sword both empowering grassroots movements and reinforcing systemic inequalities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-20
Mått:160 x 230 x 24 mm
Vikt:600 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Frankfurt School in New Times
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Medarbetare:MatthewN. Hannah
ISBN:9781666948387

Utforska kategorier

Naturvetenskap:allmänt inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo is Associate Professor of Sociology at California State University, Chico and author of Dance Music Spaces: Clubs, Clubbers, and DJs Navigating Authenticity, Branding, and Commercialism.Christopher T. Conner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri, Columbia.Matthew N. Hannah is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities in the School of Information Studies at Purdue University.

Recensioner i media

"In this age of spectacle and excess — this moment of what Erich Fromm called "sadistic circuses" — how welcome it is to see critical scrutiny applied in such a bracing and sober way to the many dimensions of our society of digitized spectacle. The authors, experts all, offer a treasury of insights across the spectrum of online themes."

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Screens and Spectacles: The New Digital Terrain of Connection and ControlChristopher T. Conner, Matthew N. Hannah, Danielle Antoinette HidalgoChapter 2: Culture Industry, Participatory Industry: How a Lack of Transparency in Social Media Deepens the Postmodern Crisis of ConsciousnessElizabeth BlakeyChapter 3: Living in the Shop Window: Spectacle, Consumption, and Conflict in Promotional LivestreamingLizhen Zhao, Alkim Yalin, and Emily WestChapter 4: Conspiracy Theories and the Spectacle of Climate ChangeMatthew N. HannahChapter 5: Ground Beneath the Echo Chamber: Forms of Life and Existential NeedsJeremiah Morelock, Gordon C. Chang, and Crystal Lee WardChapter 6: Mass Celebrity and Micro-Spectacle Charles Thorpe and Sam SmithChapter 7: The Ubiquity of Networked Life: A Critical Environmental AnalysisJessica Pardee and Vincent SerravalloChapter 8: Open Access vs. the Prestige Machine David ArditiChapter 9: Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy PerspectiveChristian FuchsChapter 10: Shoppable Self as Spectacle: Precarious Identity Making of Beauty Influencers in ChinaZepeng ZhouChapter 11: Online Violence and RadicalizationMatthew Costello and James HawdonChapter 12: The Spectacle of Digital Waste: Spectacular Reassurance Strategies and the Material Impacts of the Digital Data SystemNicholas BaxterChapter 13: The Gay Gayze, Reconsidered: Expressions of Inequality on GrindrChristopher T. ConnerIndexAbout the Editors and Contributors