TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gilroy-Ware,Marcus
TI  - Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social Media 
SN  - 9781910924945 (paperback)
AV  - HM 851 G489f 2017
U1  - 302.23 
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - London
PB  - Repeater
KW  - Social media
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - Press and politics
KW  - Communication in politics
KW  - Medios de comunicación social
KW  - Aspectos económicos
KW  - Aspectos políticos
KW  - Comunicación en política
KW  - Consumo (Economía)
KW  - Civilización
N1  - "A Repeater Books paperback original 2017"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-208) and index
N2  - Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be. Both the explosive growth of social media and the corresponding reconfiguration of the web from an information-based platform into an entertainment-based one are far more easily explained in terms of the subjective psychological experience of their users as capitalist subjects seeking 'depressive hedonia, ' the book argues. Filling the Void also interrogates the role of social media networks, designed for private commercial gain, as part of a de-facto public sphere. Both the decreasing subjective importance of factual media and the ways in which the content of the timeline are quietly manipulated--often using labour in the developing world and secret algorithms--have potentially serious implications for the capacity of social media users to query or challenge the seeming reality offered by the established hegemonic orde
ER  -