By Daniel Trottier, Christian Fuchs
This booklet is the basic advisor for realizing how kingdom energy and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings jointly contributions through social media students who discover the relationship of social media with revolutions, rebellion, protests, strength and counter-power, hacktivism, the country, policing and surveillance. It indicates how collective motion and kingdom strength are comparable and clash as dialectical aspects of social media energy, and the way strength and counter-power are disbursed during this dialectic. Theoretically concentrated and empirically rigorous research considers the two-sided contradictory nature of energy with regards to social media and politics. Chapters disguise social media within the context of phenomena similar to modern revolutions in Egypt and different international locations, populism 2.0, anti-austerity protests, the fascist flow in Greece's drawback, nameless and police surveillance.
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The modern political state does not translate the ‘interests’ of the dominant classes at the political level, but the relationship between those interests and the interests of the dominated classes— which means that it precisely constitutes the ‘political’ expression of the interests of the dominant classes” (Poulantzas 2008, 80). Based on the tensions crystallising in the state, we may reflect on the nature of a state presence on social media. Insofar as the state is meant to serve its citizens, there is the possibility that a state presence on social media can be an extension of that service.
This means that social media surveillance is an integrated form of surveillance, in which one finds surveil-lance of different (partly converging) activities in different partly converging social roles with the help of profiles that hold a complex networked multitude of data about humans. ). The total social media communication process is a combination and network of a multitude of such processes. The integration of different forms of sociality and social roles on social media means that there is a myriad of possible social functions that any single platform can serve.
In the sociocultural sphere. A new form of liquid and porous sociality has emerged, in which we partly act in different social roles in the same social space. On social media like Facebook, we act in various roles, but all of these roles become mapped onto single profiles that are observed by different people who are associated with our different social roles. This means that social media like Facebook are social spaces, in which social roles tend to converge and become integrated in single profiles.
