The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

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Cover Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Information Technology and Authoritarian Populism 1.1 Note on Methodology 1.2 Outline 2. Communication Technologies and the History of the Spectacle 2.1 Introduction 2.2 From World Market to the Modern Geoculture 2.3 The Spectacle of Mechanical Culture 2.4 Era of the Television 2.5 Spectacle and Commodity Fetishism 2.6 The New Visibility 2.7 Rise of the Digital 2.8 Surfaces: Without Depth and Without Trajectory 2.9 The Spectacular Self 2.10 Prosumers, Exhibition and Surveillance 2.11 Conclusion 3. Neoliberal Impression Management 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Decline of Embodiment and Co-Presence 3.3 Marketing Orientation and Impression Management 3.4 Human Capital and Neoliberalism 3.5 Personal Branding and Attention Seeking 3.6 Conclusion 4. Invisible Audience and Echo Chamber Effects 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Immediation of the Generalized Other 4.3 The Culture of the Newsfeed 4.4 Invisible Audience 4.5 Echo Chamber Effects 4.6 Splitting Public Sphere 4.7 Conclusion 5. Dialectics of Alienation and Abnormality 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Alienation and Authenticity Strain 5.3 Fear 5.4 Dialectic of Abnormality 5.5 Conclusion 6. Authoritarianism and Resistance 6.1 Introduction 6.2 The Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the Society of the Selfie 6.3 Sociopolitical Psychology of the Spectacular Subject 6.3.1 Neoliberal Impression Management 6.3.2 Invisible Audience and Echo Chamber Effects 6.3.3 Dialectics of Alienation and Abnormality 6.4 Communication and Authoritarian Populism: Other Factors 6.4.1 ‘The People’ Contra Rationality, Science and Expertise 6.4.2 Agitation Games 6.5 Political Uses of Information Technologies 6.6 Conclusion 7. Conclusion: A Turning Point for Liberal Democracy The Authors Bibliography Index