The Spectacle of Online Life
Series: The Frankfurt School in New Times;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 23 July 2026
- ISBN 9798216368199
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 228.6x152.4 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
The Spectacle of Online Life explores digital paradoxes-connection and isolation, empowerment and control-through topics like influencer culture, AI moderation, and online conspiracies.
MoreLong description:
The Spectacle of Online Life offers a groundbreaking exploration of the digital age's most pressing paradoxes: connection and isolation, democratization and control, authenticity and performance.
Edited by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo, Christopher T. Conner, and Matthew N. Hannah, this volume assembles a diverse array of scholars to critically examine how online technologies shape, reflect, and amplify the complexities of modern society.
Chapters in the text draw on insights from the Frankfurt School, Situationist International, and contemporary media studies. This collection delves into topics as varied as promotional livestreaming, climate change conspiracy theories, beauty influencer culture, and the role of artificial intelligence in content moderation. As the authors show, digital platforms are a double-edged sword both empowering grassroots movements and reinforcing systemic inequalities.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Screens and Spectacles: The New Digital Terrain of Connection and Control
Christopher T. Conner, Matthew N. Hannah, Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Chapter 2: Culture Industry, Participatory Industry: How a Lack of Transparency in Social Media Deepens the Postmodern Crisis of Consciousness
Elizabeth Blakey
Chapter 3: Living in the Shop Window: Spectacle, Consumption, and Conflict in Promotional Livestreaming
Lizhen Zhao, Alkim Yalin, and Emily West
Chapter 4: Conspiracy Theories and the Spectacle of Climate Change
Matthew N. Hannah
Chapter 5: Ground Beneath the Echo Chamber: Forms of Life and Existential Needs
Jeremiah Morelock, Gordon C. Chang, and Crystal Lee Ward
Chapter 6: Mass Celebrity and Micro-Spectacle
Charles Thorpe and Sam Smith
Chapter 7: The Ubiquity of Networked Life: A Critical Environmental Analysis
Jessica Pardee and Vincent Serravallo
Chapter 8: Open Access vs. the Prestige Machine
David Arditi
Chapter 9: Critical Theory Foundations of Digital Capitalism: A Critical Political Economy Perspective
Christian Fuchs
Chapter 10: Shoppable Self as Spectacle: Precarious Identity Making of Beauty Influencers in China
Zepeng Zhou
Chapter 11: Online Violence and Radicalization
Matthew Costello and James Hawdon
Chapter 12: The Spectacle of Digital Waste: Spectacular Reassurance Strategies and the Material Impacts of the Digital Data System
Nicholas Baxter
Chapter 13: The Gay Gayze, Reconsidered: Expressions of Inequality on Grindr
Christopher T. Conner
Index
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