Social Media, Truth and the Care of the Self

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Beschreibung

This book explores the relationship between (post)truth and subjectivity by focusing on social media as a site of digital subjectification. These days, truth is cheap. Anyone can claim it. Indeed, most do ¿ impudently and without any recourse to facts or objective reality. Truth-claims today are nothing but power grabs, employed in the permanent popularity contest that our culture and politics have become. Correspondingly, our very sense of reality is perpetually uprooted. Post-truth sets us adrift. Navigating by smartphones, we pursue endless mirages, coming to wonder whether the shoreline itself is a myth.

The book examines the ways in which different digital practices ¿ such as influencing, trolling and digital activism ¿ operate as technologies of the subject, shaping how we relate to ourselves, others and the world. It argues that social media facilitates the progressive eclipsing of our subjective (dis)positions by the economic imperative. Positioning post-truth as the outcome of unbridled economicization, it exposes the true costs of its supremacy. The critical reflections on the relationship between digital subjectification and the social offered by this book will be of relevance to academics and students working in the fields of sociology, media and cultural studies, politics, and philosophy.

Über den Autor

Diana Stypinska is Lecturer in Social Theory in the School of Political Science and Sociology at University of Galway, Ireland. Her work spans critical theory, continental philosophy, cultural studies and critical sociology. She is the author of On the Genealogy of Critique: Or How We Have Become Decadently Indignant (2020).

Zusammenfassung

Provides a critical assessment of authenticity as related to social media and the self

Critically analyses the impact of influencing, trolling, and online activism on social relations

Explores the relevance of Michel Foucault's ideas for understanding contemporary digital technologies of the subject

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. ¿Introduction: Towards Digital Subjectification.- 2. The Confessions of an Influencer.- 3. I Troll, Therefore I Am.- 4. Keyboard Revolutionaries.- 5. Conclusion: Care in the Post-Truth World.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Buch
Seiten:	108
Inhalt:	xi 95 S.
ISBN-13:	9783031181078
ISBN-10:	3031181077
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Stypinska, Diana
Auflage:	1st ed. 2022
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Maße:	216 x 153 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Diana Stypinska
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.11.2022
Gewicht:	0,263 kg

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