Meaning in the age of social media

Title
  1. Meaning in the age of social media / Ganaele Langlois.
Published by
  1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Author
  1. Langlois, Ganaele

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Description
  1. 201 pages ; illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
  1. "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.
Subject
  1. Social networks
  2. Meaning (Philosophy)
  3. Bedeutung
  4. Soziale Software
  5. Soziales Netzwerk
Contents
  1. 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
  1. JFD 15-4818
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Langlois, Ganaele, author.
Title
  1. Meaning in the age of social media / Ganaele Langlois.
Publisher
  1. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN
  1. 2013048679
ISBN
  1. 9781137356604 (alk. paper)
  2. 113735660X (alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFD 15-4818
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