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Is Social Media Capitalism's Postmodern Pleasure Trap? 'Filling the Void' w/ Marcus Gilroy-Ware

12.03.2023 - By Acid HorizonPlay

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Buy the book: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/filling-the-void-emotion-capitalism-and-social-media/It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be. Both the explosive growth of social media and the corresponding reconfiguration of the web from an information-based platform into an en...

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