Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social: Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of Care
This paper analyses the role of the “social” in communicative capitalism. It shows how the digital social is situated in the context of ideology, exploitation, and alienation. Based on the ethics of care, the essay outlines foundations of an alternative concept and reality of the social in digital s...
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Paderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research Group
2020-01-01
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| description | This paper analyses the role of the “social” in communicative capitalism. It shows how the digital social is situated in the context of ideology, exploitation, and alienation. Based on the ethics of care, the essay outlines foundations of an alternative concept and reality of the social in digital socialism. It borrows the key concept of “care” from feminist theory and ethics and uses it to explore alternative paths to rethink “digital socialism” in the age of social media ubiquity and the pervasiveness of communicative capitalism. We need imaginative efforts to think beyond “capitalist realism” as a “pervasive atmosphere” (Fisher 2009, 16) that impacts not just the economy and cultural production, but also the domain of the ideas to the extent that it seems “impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it” (Fisher 2009, 2). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ea10a96dd34347a28dbb34a43c8027002023-09-02T17:09:34ZengPaderborn University: Media Systems and Media Organisation Research GrouptripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique1726-670X1726-670X2020-01-0118110111510.31269/triplec.v18i1.11451145Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social: Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of CareDonatella Della Ratta0John Cabot UniversityThis paper analyses the role of the “social” in communicative capitalism. It shows how the digital social is situated in the context of ideology, exploitation, and alienation. Based on the ethics of care, the essay outlines foundations of an alternative concept and reality of the social in digital socialism. It borrows the key concept of “care” from feminist theory and ethics and uses it to explore alternative paths to rethink “digital socialism” in the age of social media ubiquity and the pervasiveness of communicative capitalism. We need imaginative efforts to think beyond “capitalist realism” as a “pervasive atmosphere” (Fisher 2009, 16) that impacts not just the economy and cultural production, but also the domain of the ideas to the extent that it seems “impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it” (Fisher 2009, 2).https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1145digital socialismcommunicative capitalismsocial mediacare economyfeminist theoryethics of care |
| spellingShingle | Donatella Della Ratta Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social: Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of Care tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique digital socialism communicative capitalism social media care economy feminist theory ethics of care |
| title | Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social: Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of Care |
| title_full | Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social: Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of Care |
| title_fullStr | Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social: Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of Care |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social: Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of Care |
| title_short | Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social: Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of Care |
| title_sort | digital socialism beyond the digital social confronting communicative capitalism with ethics of care |
| topic | digital socialism communicative capitalism social media care economy feminist theory ethics of care |
| url | https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/1145 |
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