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The Network Spectacle
[chapter]
2018
Social Capital Online: Alienation and Accumulation
Networks of promotion/control slide imperceptibly into networks of surveillance/disinformation. Guy Debord (1988, 74). This chapter takes up the issue of whether more of us are being caught up in a kind of network spectacle whereby all that is digitally networked must, by definition, be good -including social life. Moreover, online social capital becomes a kind of lure to entice more participation, where obtaining signs of approbation through social buttons and incremental increases is built
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