To browse Academia. School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Skip to main content. Log In Sign Up. Followers Following Co-author 1. Public Views. Manfred Knoche Research associate at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria media economics and media policy research group led by Prof. Manfred Knoche and Prof. Related Authors. Muqtedar Khan University of Delaware. Robert Prey University of Oxford. Bob Jessop Lancaster University.
Maurizio Forte Duke University. David Seamon Kansas State University. Interests View All Books by Sebastian Sevignani. Sevignani, Sebastian et al. Philosophers of the World Unite! Special issue of tripleC: Communication, Capitalism, and Critique. Download Edit. Priavacy and Capitalism in the Age of Social Media. This book explores commodification processes of personal data and provides a critical framing of Second, the best response to this problem is not accomplished by invoking the privacy framework as it stands, because it is itself part of the problematic nexus that it struggles against.
Informational capitalism poses weighty problems for making the Internet a truly social medium, and aspiring to sustainable privacy simultaneously means to struggle against alienation and exploitation. In the last instance, this means opposing the capitalist form of association β online and offline. Sevignani, Sebastian. Master thesis. University of Salzburg [in German]. Dissertation: University of Salzburg. Book Reviews by Sebastian Sevignani. Sebastian, Sevignani.
Papers by Sebastian Sevignani. The political economy of social media is best qualified as surveillance driven culture production and an interplay of distinct modes of production commons based peer production and commodity production , which gives rise to the problem of how to understand the interplay of these modes. The article discusses contributions from different theoretical angels, such as the materialist theory of communication, the theory of cognitive capitalism, the theory of prosumption, and the theory of rent in the informational age.
The discussion is organised by three topics: Is using social media a kind of work? Are users subsumed to capital control? Are users exploited? The article marks theoretical challenges for a critical theory of informational capitalism.
