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The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 20 Aug 2022 03:03:29
The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

Jeremiah Morelock, "The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy"
English | ISBN: 1914386256 | 2021 | 190 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1362 KB + 1354 KB

This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation.
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