Understanding Social Media Use as Alienation: A Review and Critique

Autor/in	Reveley, James
Titel	Understanding Social Media Use as Alienation: A Review and Critique
Quelle	In: E-Learning and Digital Media, 10 (2013) 1, S.83-94 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2042-7530
DOI	10.2304/elea.2013.10.1.83
Schlagwörter	Social Networks; Alienation; Computer Mediated Communication; Role; Information Technology; Criticism; Corporations; Ideology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Entfremdung; Computerkonferenz; Rollen; Informationstechnologie; Kritik; Unternehmen; Ideologie
Abstract	The opportunities social media provide for agential expressions of subjectivity and experiential learning, relative to social media's role in reproducing digital-era capitalism, are the subject of keen debate. There is now a burgeoning academic literature which suggests that social media users are, to a greater or lesser degree, alienated by the activities of mega-corporations like Google and Facebook. Within this literature two broad perspectives are clearly identifiable. The first insists that social media platforms strongly alienate their users. To the extent that critical media scholars who advance this proposition are preoccupied with ideological hegemony, their work emblematises the idealist tendency of (old) media theorists that Dallas W. Smythe criticises. Contributors to the second perspective posit a trade-off between social media user alienation and exploitation. Not only is this idea inherently problematical, it does not go far enough towards resetting the analysis of social media back onto a materialist track. This article seeks to do just that. (Contains 13 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10