The Brave New Social Media: Contradictory Information and Communication Technologies and the State-Capitalist Surveillance Complex

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Brave New Social Media: Contradictory Information and Communication Technologies and the State-Capitalist Surveillance Complex

Original language description

The paper looks at the wider role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of their use in global political struggles, but also on the back of their sweeping abuse for surveillance by global capitalist corporations and state institutions. A general question is raised: can the Internet and social media be perceived as a means of social progress or as mechanisms of oppression? The author proceeds from a critical perspective and emphasises that ICTs must be analysed as parts of the social totality. They cannot be understood in a dichotomous way, but only as being full of contradictions. Yet, contradictions do not entail relativism - class inequalities, exploitation and domination are filtered through ICTs together with the manifold antagonisms emerging from capitalist societies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Teorija in Praksa

ISSN

0040-3598

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

SI - SLOVENIA

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

1222-1241

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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