“All the world’s a shopping cart”: Theorizing the political economy of ubiquitous media and markets

McGuigan, Lee; Manzerolle, Vincent

doi:10.1177/1461444814535191

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“…Indeed, consumers are willing to hand over personal information in exchange for coupons, discounts and other rewards (Accenture, 2015):In this media ecosystem – comprising the feedback between social subjects, organizations, and technologies – ‘moments of exchange’ can penetrate and transform almost all of lived experience … it reduces electronic commerce to a fully naturalized, entrenched, and unnoticed component of social reality. (McGuigan and Manzerolle, 2015, p. 1832)…”

Section: ‘Always Already In the Market’ – A Field Theory Of The Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Further contributing to this acceleration, mobile payment technologies and services, as emerging instruments of exchange, enable the collapsing of the ‘threefold division’ of material life, economic life and the activities of capitalism (p. 455). As such, locating the market becomes much easier: wherever you are, there you are, always already in the market (McGuigan & Manzerolle, 2015).…”

Section: ‘Always Already In the Market’ – A Field Theory Of The Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this media ecosystem -comprising the feedback between social subjects, organizations, and technologies -'moments of exchange' can penetrate and transform almost all of lived experience … it reduces electronic commerce to a fully naturalized, entrenched, and unnoticed component of social reality. (McGuigan andManzerolle, 2015, p. 1832) The capacity for market transactions is as pervasive and saturating as the electromagnetic field itself.…”

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confidence: 99%

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On the transactional ecosystems of digital media

Manzerolle

Wiseman

2016

Communication and the Public

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This article contributes a framework for understanding the convergence of two ‘transactional ecosystems’ or, put differently, the convergence of two types of currency: money and attention. The former is represented in the push to make commercial transactions ubiquitous and seamless (e.g. as in mobile payment systems), while the latter is represented by theories of the ‘attention economy’ and subsumed in the ‘attention and engagement’ metrics that currently shape the production and distribution of content on digital and mobile platforms. The means of communication and commerce, of payment and attention, are increasingly wedded together in the same device or platform implying that how we pay for things is bound up with ‘the things to which we attend’. Drawing on literature on the political economy of media, this article provides historical and theoretical contexts for this convergence, offers some paradigmatic examples alongside industry analysis and concludes by raising potential concerns emerging from its current trajectory.

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Section: ‘Always Already In the Market’ – A Field Theory Of The Marketmentioning

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Section: ‘Always Already In the Market’ – A Field Theory Of The Marketmentioning

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On the transactional ecosystems of digital media

Manzerolle

Wiseman

2016

Communication and the Public

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“…Systems of monetisation based on surveillance of user data have worrying consequences in terms of power, surveillance and privacy (see Turow, 2012). There is evidence that the rise of networked, personalised mobile communication allows a more thoroughgoing commercialisation of culture (McGuigan & Manzerolle, 2015).…”

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What the digitalisation of music tells us about capitalism, culture and the power of the information technology sector

Hesmondhalgh

Meier

2017

Information, Communication & Society

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This article examines a striking but under-analysed feature of culture under capitalism, using the example of music: that the main ways in which people gain access to cultural experiences are subject to frequent, radical and disorienting shifts. It has two main aims. The first is to provide a macro-historical, multi-causal explanation of changes in technologies of musical consumption, emphasising the mutual imbrication of the economic interests of corporations with sociocultural transformations. We identify a shift over the last twenty years from consumer electronics (CE) to information technology (IT) as the most powerful sectoral force shaping how music and culture are mediated and experienced, and argue that this shift from CE to IT drew upon, and in turn quickened, a shift from domestic consumption to personalised, mobile and connected consumption, and from dynamics of what Raymond Williams called 'mobile privatisation' to what we call 'networked mobile personalisation'. The second aim is to assess change and continuity in the main means by which recorded music is consumed, in long-term perspective. We argue that disruptions caused by recent 'digitalisation' of music are consistent with longer term processes, whereby music has been something of a testing ground for the introduction of new cultural technologies. But we also recognise particularly high levels of disruption in recent times and relate these to the new dominance of the IT industries, and the particular dynamism or instability of that sector. We close by discussing the degree to which constant changes in how people access musical experiences might be read as instances of capitalism's tendency to prioritise limiting notions of consumer preference over meaningful needs.

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“…Nowadays SNSs have been integrated into the users' daily practices. The sites are used for various purposes, such as a platform to engage in informal learning (Rashid and Rahman, 2014;Bilic, 2015), obtaining social support (Rashid, 2016), presenting desirable self-images (Brailovskaia and Bierhoff, 2016), disseminating particular ideologies (Larsson, 2016;Rojecki and Meraz, 2016), creating and maintaining friendship (Buglass et al, 2016) and shopping online (McGuigan and Manzerolle, 2015).…”

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English Language Teachers as a Dissenter on a Social Networking Site

Rashid

Wahab

Yunus

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IJALEL

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This paper explores how teachers discursively construct socially desirable identities to sustain their engagement in the Facebook Timeline community. Data were gathered from the Status updates and Comments on 29 Timelines belonged to Malaysian English language teachers who were purposively chosen as they often posted and commented on teachingrelated issues on their Timelines. The analysis shows that the commonest form of identity construction on the teachers' Timelines was as a dissenter which had been carefully constructed to present positive self-images and cast blames on other people. The teachers questioned the expectations of the people around them, as they perceive that the expectations are unrealistic. This paper concludes that the teachers were being strategic in their postings where they provide justification for their views and ascribe particular identities to other people in the process of constructing their own identity as a dissenter.

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“All the world’s a shopping cart”: Theorizing the political economy of ubiquitous media and markets

Cited by 22 publications

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On the transactional ecosystems of digital media

On the transactional ecosystems of digital media

What the digitalisation of music tells us about capitalism, culture and the power of the information technology sector

English Language Teachers as a Dissenter on a Social Networking Site

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