Social Capital Online Alienation and Accumulation

"What is 'social capital'? The enormous positivity surrounding it conceals the instrumental economic rationality underpinning the notion as corporations silently sell consumer data for profit. Status chasing is just one aspect of a process of transforming qualitative aspects of social...

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Main Author: Faucher, Kane (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Westminster Press 2018
Series:Critical Digital and Social Media Studies
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