Digital Socialism Beyond the Digital Social

Confronting Communicative Capitalism with Ethics of Care

Bibliographic Data

ID21187692
AuthorsDonatella Della Ratta (John Cabot University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume18
Issue1
Pages101-115
Publication date2020-01-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuetripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1726-670X • E-ISSN: 1726-670X
PublisherInformation Society Research (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.31269/triplec.v18i1.1145
OpenAlexW2998823854
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

This paper analyses the role of the “social” in communicative capitalism. It shows how the digital social is situated in the context of ideology, exploitation, and alienation. Based on the ethics of care, the essay outlines foundations of an alternative concept and reality of the social in digital socialism. It borrows the key concept of “care” from feminist theory and ethics and uses it to explore alternative paths to rethink “digital socialism” in the age of social media ubiquity and the pervasiveness of communicative capitalism. We need imaginative efforts to think beyond “capitalist realism” as a “pervasive atmosphere” (Fisher 2009, 16) that impacts not just the economy and cultural production, but also the domain of the ideas to the extent that it seems “impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it” (Fisher 2009, 2)

Alienation · Capitalism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Social science · Socialism · Sociology · Digital Economy and Work Transformation · Digital Games and Media · Law · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics

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