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(2015)
  • Athina Karatzogianni
Abstract
Any random sampling of a Facebook timeline or Twitter feed, to take the obvious examples, provides a prepackaged view of global politics. It is restrictive because we choose it to reflect our own pet subjects, groups, likes, and world interests. The lens is prejudiced to reflect our race, class, gender, sexuality, ideology, and affective positionality. We enter a social media world as many as 10 or 50 times a day that has ourselves as the center of the universe. This communication world is similar to an infant’s world: Someone else decides what we can see, what we can consume, what is that extra treat we can earn, if we are good: in social media terms, if we pay for it by reputational capital, or simply, if we spend enough money.
Keywords
  • social media,
  • politics,
  • political subjectivity
Publication Date
Summer April, 2015
DOI
DOI: 10.1177/2056305115580480
Citation Information
Karatzogianni, A. 'The Social Media Political Subject Is an Infant', SI Manifesto, Social Media and Society, April-June 2015: 1–2.