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What is Technological Dystopia

Handbook of Research on Civic Engagement and Social Change in Contemporary Society
An association between technology and catastrophic changes and a contaminated humanness that compromises social intercourse.
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Mediation Is the Message: Social Media Ventures in Informational Capitalism
Marco Briziarelli (University of New Mexico, USA) and Joseph Flores (University of New Mexico, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4197-4.ch018
Abstract
In this chapter, the authors explore the deep level of ambiguities that characterizes the relationship between social media and capitalism, and the social, political economic context in which in several regions of world they operate. This reflection is provided in a particular moment of history in which media may have become at the same time the main “language” in order to decipher contemporary economics as well as the material terrain in which those economic activities develop. Yet, while social media seems to have been more and more integrated within the logic of capitalism, and capitalism has increasingly assumed the morphology of an informational dispersal, their relationship is not straightforward but defined by a series of deep rooted tensions.
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