Chapter 11

·       11.1 Social Media Reality: Ideologies and Exploitation

            Ideology

This part of the chapter talk a lot about how social media have been the cause and been painted the villain when it comes to violence by the mass media and how that is not the case. The reason for the violence have many different factors and all comes from different factors in our society per the same part of the chapter.

·         Exploitation

Here the problem with how politics, social media, the internet and money are intertwined is brought up again in shorter text and very cramped together. The text brings up Twitter as an example of a platform where politics plays a minor role but still have an influence.

·         Social Media: Anticipative and Limited Sociality

It is brought up that social media can’t be truly social when capitalism is still involved as it is today. How when social media platforms are owned by corporations, when humans have ownership over them, social media can’t truly be a free social experience for humans.

11.2 Social Media Alternatives

·         The Internet and the Logic of the Commons

Again, here the author brings up the capitalism side of the internet but it’s also brought up that the Internet should be a free and common place without any restrictions as it has now.

·         Capitalism, Neoliberalism, Crisis

The meaning behind, causes and reasons for neoliberalism is explained and summaries and we learn of what part capitalism and neoliberalism play in each other.

·         Struggles

The most important part of the third part under this title is that a need for consumer protection in cyberspace to be realized as a part of a policy that protects the information environment.

·         Data Protection Laws

Data Protection Laws are brought up as something that should be put in place to protect users on the internet to protect their personal information and an example involving Facebook in Ireland is used.

·         Opt-in Advertising Policies

The problems surrounding opt-in and opt-out solutions when it comes to corporations and advertisement on the internet.

·         Corporate Watch Platforms as a Form of Struggle against Corporatism

Throughout this whole chapter so far there have been a lot of talk about capitalism and corporations and what power politics and economy have over the internet and social media but this chapter brings up how they so called spy on us users and about websites that spy on them.

·         Alternative Internet Platforms

Alternative internet media is almost impossible to achieve if we are to listen to this chapter. It tells us that to create an alternative platform outside of capitalism you must create it within capitalism first, money is always needed in other words.

11.3 Towards a Truly Social Media and a New Society

This chapter and book ends with bringing up the theme that seem so run throughout the whole text which is privacy, capitalism, corporations and how before there will ever truly be a Social Media there have to be changes within the society in a whole.

Anna Good