The Social Media Agon as Differencing Machine

A Materialist Feminist Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID12918241
AuthorsCarolyn Elerding (College of New Jersey, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume11
Issue1
Pages162-178
Publication date2018-01-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCommunication Culture and Critique (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1753-9137 • E-ISSN: 1753-9129
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/ccc/tcx019
OpenAlexW2794558930
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited18

The purpose of this article is to explore French materialist and Marxist feminist theories of social reproduction as a basis for understanding how social differences relate to the extreme right’s aggressive media presence. Such perspectives illuminate the inseparability of social inequalities from capitalism and, in conjunction with feminist and queer theory, how cultural categories gain material momentum and change over time. The analysis investigates the motives behind two examples of online violence toward feminists of color: the harassment of Linda Sarsour and the distributed denial of service attacks on the official website of #BlackLivesMatter

Capitalism · Denial · Epistemology · Feminism · Harassment · Historical materialism · Inequality · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Media studies · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Social inequality · Social media · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Social Psychology

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