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Meaning in the age of social media
- Title
- Meaning in the age of social media / Ganaele Langlois.
- Author
- Langlois, Ganaele
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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Details
- Description
- 201 pages ; illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The search for meaning is an essential human activity. It is not simply about agreeing on some definitions about the world, objects, and people, but is also an ethical process of opening up to others and to the world to find new possibilities. Social media corporations commodify our search for meaning by defining the parameters through which we can experience meaningfulness. This new context of meaning requires rethinking the relationships between language, software, and the psyche. Langlois uses case studies of popular social media platforms (including Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon, among others) to revisit traditional conceptions of meaning. She develops a new theoretical and methodological framework drawing from post-Fordist theories, software studies, critical theory, and relational psychoanalysis to examine the technical mediation and commodification of the psychic, cultural, and linguistic processes involved in the search for meaning." -- Publisher's description.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: meaning and social media -- Governing meaning -- Meaning machines -- Meaningfulness and subjectivation -- Social networking and the production of the self -- Being in the world -- Afterword: social data and the politics of existence -- List of tables -- Table 2.1: Glossematics -- Table 2.2: Guattari and glossematics -- Table 2.3: Mixed semiotics -- Acknowledgements.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-4818
- ISBN
- 9781137356604 (alk. paper)
- 113735660X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013048679
- OCLC
- 867001140
- Author
- Langlois, Ganaele, author.
- Title
- Meaning in the age of social media / Ganaele Langlois.
- Publisher
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-4818