SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prosumer, Civil Society, Neoliberalism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 525
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Facebook, you tube, twitter (5, 33, 62, 69) Does not reflect but constitutes social reality. Discourse: systems of thoughts, ideas, attitudes, beliefs and practices that systematically construct the subjects and the worlds of which they speak. Discourses produce knowledge(s)--- about bodies, individuals, social, material worlds . Discourses have firm institutional bases: law, medicine, family, work etc. Discourses work as tactical elements or blocks operating in the field of force relations (on 107). Introducing the internet: the political economy of the internet (chapter 5) Facebook & prosumers (chapter 62: the internet and discursive productions of race (chapter 69) Highly private because people own their domains: very powerful internet monopolies (ie. google, digital divide: people in rural parts of canada or living in poverty do not have access to internet. Social media: do social media sites challenge or endorse the logic of neoliberalism, blurring of lines between producers and consumers. Producer/consumer: working without pay, labour managed through surveillance.