Filling the Void

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Filling the Void

By Marcus Gilroy-Ware

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About the book

Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. 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...Show more

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ISBN

9781910924945

Publisher

Watkins Media

Published year

2017

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1

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Filling the Void

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Paperback

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