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    An Economy of 'Likes': Instagram and Debord's Spectacle

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    Pulitzer, Jacob David
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    Tinkcom, Matthew J
    Abstract
    Instagram constitutes an economy of “likes.” Users exchange “posts”—commodities in this new spectacle—for capital in the form of “likes” and comments. Instagram does not represent a new social forum, but rather a reconstitution of market forces into socio-digital space. This critique draws on the discipline Critical Theory, and especially the work of Guy Debord in Society of the Spectacle. The roots of this project spring from Marx’s critique of capitalism, Hegel’s dialectical method, and Freud’s theory of mind (psychoanalysis).
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    M.A.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1060740
    Date Published
    2020
    Subject
    Critical Theory; Debord; Instagram; Marx; Social Media; Society of the Spectacle; Communication; Oral communication; Philosophy; Literature; Communication; Philosophy; Literature;
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    thesis
    Publisher
    Georgetown University
    Extent
    56 leaves
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