{"product_id":"formative-media-steffen-krzger-9781032308593","title":"Formative Media: Psychoanalysis and Digital Media Platforms","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFormative Media\u003c\/i\u003e presents a psychoanalytic and psychosocial inquiry into the significance of the most widely used digital platforms - including Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter (X), and Instagram - and the relational styles that users cultivate and habituate in their interplay with these platforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSteffen Krüger assesses the formative effects of these platforms, considering \u003ci\u003ewho we are\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ehow we are becoming who we are\u003c\/i\u003e in relation to, as well as mediated through, digital platforms. The book considers Facebook in conversation with the Freudian theory of Eros and the Live\/Love drive, then homes in on the primitive forms of orality, attachment, dependence, and symbiosis in relation to YouTube. Krüger then expands the discussion of orality with an inquiry into the notions of mastery, control, and domination that Google unfolds and activates in its search function, considers narcissism in the context of Instagram, and examines hate speech and aggression on Twitter. The book focuses on the most salient, most talked about aspects, features, and activities of commercial, corporate social media culture to inquire into the formational pushes and pulls of these activities in their contexts for our subjectivities and sense of self.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShowing in detail how digital media platforms have advanced into central \"socialisation agencies,\" \u003ci\u003eFormative Media\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest to academics and scholars of psychoanalytic, psychocultural, and psychosocial theory, critical digital media studies, and interactional theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steffen Krüger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032308591\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032308593\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d","brand":"Steffen Krüger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48621864648959,"sku":"9781032308593","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f987a540-1cb0-453d-96cd-3565ce5564ba.jpg?v=1780427399","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/formative-media-steffen-krzger-9781032308593","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}