The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration

Manzerolle, Vincent; Kjøsen, Atle Mikkola

doi:10.31269/vol10iss2pp214-229

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“…The applied approach is hence somewhat different from earlier studies considering media practices of protest movements that have focussed on spectacle (Kellner, 2012), mobilization and knowledge sharing (Mattoni, 2012). The aim is to investigate the temporal structuring of media technologies that can be both enabling and constraining for the purposes of activists.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…I take this description of the current structure or feeling (Williams, 1980) as a starting point and assume that the character of temporal structuring by media technologies has not only implications for everyday life on an individual level, but also for protest movements and their media practices (Couldry, 2004; Mattoni, 2012; Postill, 2010). Two case studies of movements of the dispossessed in the USA serve as empirical entry points to carve out changing regimes of temporality in conjuncture with forms and function of media participation.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Regimes of time: Media practices of the dispossessed

Kaun

2015

Time & Society

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Media technologies are structuring time and space in crucial ways. Especially the temporal aspect has been of interest lately, which is expressed in a growing commentary on media-related time in terms of speed and acceleration. Taking this discussion as a starting point, I problematize the consequences of temporal structuring by media technologies for civic participation and more specifically protest movements. Drawing on two case studies – the unemployed workers’ movements of the 1930s and the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011/2012 – I explore the changing regimes of time that are related to dominant media technologies. The main aim is to disentangle the relationship between temporal regimes suggested by media technologies and their appropriation by protest movements that emerged in major economic crises. Combing archival materials with in-depth interviews, I discuss the importance of media practices for the two movements and uncover a shift from mechanical speed to digital immediacy having crucial implications for democracy and civic participation.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Regimes of time: Media practices of the dispossessed

Kaun

2015

Time & Society

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“…Similarly, Daubs and Manzerolle (2016) have argued that “app-centric media” employ an imagery of autonomy and empowerment for both users and producers while being grounded in the political culture of neoliberalism, control, and commodification of user data. This is particularly true not only if we focus on discourses surrounding the “App worker” as suggested by Dyer-Witheford (2014) but also if we consider the complex relationship between apps, users, and commodities as discussed by Manzerolle and Kjøsen (2012).…”

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BabyVeillance? Expecting Parents, Online Surveillance and the Cultural Specificity of Pregnancy Apps

Barassi

2017

Social Media + Society

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The rapid proliferation of self-tracking pregnancy apps raises critical questions about the commodification and surveillance of personal data in family life while highlighting key transformations in the social experience of pregnancy. In the last 2 years, we have seen the emergence of significant research in the field. On one hand, scholars have highlighted the political economic dimension of these apps by showing how they relate to new practices of quantification of the self. On the other hand, they have focused on users’ experience and on the affective, pleasurable, and socially meaningful dimension of these technologies. Although insightful, current research has yet to consider the cultural specificity of these technologies. Drawing on a digital ethnography of the 10 most reviewed pregnancy apps among UK and US users at the beginning of 2016, the article will show not only that the information ecologies of pregnancy apps are extremely varied but also that users’ interaction with these technologies is critical and culturally specific. By discussing pregnancy apps as complex ethnographic environments—which are shaped by different cultural tensions and open-ended processes of negotiation, interaction, and normativity—the article will argue that—in the study of infancy online—we need to develop a media anthropological approach and shed light on the cultural complexity of digital technologies while taking into account how users negotiate with digital surveillance and the quantification of the self.

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“…Hence, any response to them becomes irrelevant as well, and any political potential disperses into the perpetual flow of communication (Dean, 2009(Dean, , 2010. One of the major principles of communicative capitalism is, furthermore, to accelerate the speed of circulation in order to minimize turn-over time and increase the production of surplus value (Manzerolle and Kjøsen, 2012). As digital media enhance personalization, they enable new trajectories and pathways between production, exchange and consumer.…”

Section: Digital Immediacymentioning

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‘Our time to act has come’: desynchronization, social media time and protest movements

Kaun

2016

Media, Culture & Society

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Protest movements have successfully adopted media technologies to promote their causes and mobilize large numbers of supporters. Especially social media that are considered as low-cost and time saving alternatives have played particularly important roles in recent mobilizations (Constanza-Chock, 2014). There is, however, a growing concern about the contradictions between long-term organizing for progressive, social change on the one hand and the media technologies employed on the other (Tufekci, 2014). Hartmut Rosa (2013)

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The Communication of Capital: Digital Media and the Logic of Acceleration

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

Regimes of time: Media practices of the dispossessed

Regimes of time: Media practices of the dispossessed

BabyVeillance? Expecting Parents, Online Surveillance and the Cultural Specificity of Pregnancy Apps

‘Our time to act has come’: desynchronization, social media time and protest movements

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