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

dc.contributor.advisor	Tinkcom, Matthew J
dc.creator	Pulitzer, Jacob David
dc.date.accessioned	2021-01-29T19:10:28Z
dc.date.available	2021-01-29T19:10:28Z
dc.date.created	2020
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.date.submitted	01/01/2020
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10822/1060740
dc.description	M.A.
dc.description.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).
dc.format	PDF
dc.format.extent	56 leaves
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Georgetown University
dc.source	Georgetown University-Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
dc.source	Communication, Culture & Technology
dc.subject	Critical Theory
dc.subject	Debord
dc.subject	Instagram
dc.subject	Marx
dc.subject	Social Media
dc.subject	Society of the Spectacle
dc.subject.lcsh	Communication
dc.subject.lcsh	Oral communication
dc.subject.lcsh	Philosophy
dc.subject.lcsh	Literature
dc.subject.other	Communication
dc.subject.other	Philosophy
dc.subject.other	Literature
dc.title	An Economy of 'Likes': Instagram and Debord's Spectacle
dc.type	thesis

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