{"product_id":"filling-the-void-marcus-gilroy-ware-9781910924945","title":"Filling the Void: Emotion, Capitalism and Social Media","description":"Filling The Void is a book about how the cultures and psychology of social media use fit within a broader landscape of life under capitalism. It argues that social media use is often a psychological response to the need for pleasure and comfort that results from the stresses of life under postmodern capitalism, rather than being a driver of new behaviours as newer technologies are often said to be. Both the explosive growth of social media and the corresponding reconfiguration of the web from an information-based platform into an entertainment-based one are far more easily explained in terms of the subjective psychological experience of their users as capitalist subjects seeking 'depressive hedonia, ' the book argues. Filling the Void also interrogates the role of social media networks, designed for private commercial gain, as part of a de-facto public sphere. Both the decreasing subjective importance of factual media and the ways in which the content of the timeline are quietly manipulated--often using labour in the developing world and secret algorithms--have potentially serious implications for the capacity of social media users to query or challenge the seeming reality offered by the established hegemonic order\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcus Gilroy-Ware\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1910924946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781910924945\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Repeater\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 4.80w x 0.80d","brand":"Marcus Gilroy-Ware","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983773925631,"sku":"9781910924945","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_197c2058-6dc4-4d33-8abb-b940699c23bc.jpg?v=1683268636","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/filling-the-void-marcus-gilroy-ware-9781910924945","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}