社交媒体批判导言

• 夢殊

  2017-03-04
  For discussing the notion of communism, I have deliberately used many quotations by Marx and Engels in order to show that they see communism not as a repressive and totalitarian society, but as a form of humanism that is based on co-operation, participatory economic democracy, and well-rounded human individuality. Comminism is not the Soviet Union, Stalin, Mao and the Gulag, but participatory democracy. Stalin, Mao and the Soviet Union called themselves communist, but had nothing in common with participatory democracy and therefore were alien to the Marxian idea of communism. Communism was, for Marx, the "struggle for democracy". By democracy, Marx means a specific kind of democracy - participatory democracy.
• 夢殊

  2017-02-20
  Politics on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook are possible, but are minority issues--the predominant focus of users is on non-political entertainment. Web 2.0 corporations and the usage they enable are not an expression of participatory democracy. As long as corporations dominate the Internet, it will not be participatory. The participatory Internet can only be found in those aras that resist coporate domination and where activists and users engage in building and reproducing non-commercial, non-profit Internet projects like Wikipedia or Diaspora. Jenkins (and many others) continuously ignores questions of who owns, controls and materially benefits from corporate social media.
• 夢殊

  2017-02-20
  Is Online Fascism Participatory Culture?...www.ultras.ws is a discussion forum of the Ultras soccer fan movement. One can find anti-Semitic and racist jokes in the forum, and in a survey conducted in the forum 56% said that it is no problem if fans shout "Jews" for characterizaing opposing teams. The following joke is typical and no exception, but rather the rule, in this forum: "How do you get 30 Jews into a Trabi [=a small car common in East Germany under Soviet times]? Two in the front, three in the back and the rest in the ashtray." The concept of participatory culture has a focus on "community involvement"... However, it idealizes community and fan culture as progressive and ignores the fact that the collective intelligence and activity of cultural communities and fandom can easily ...
• 夢殊

  2017-02-19
  Fandom as such is not a problem, if the researcher, who is also a fan of his objects of study, manages to maintain critical reflexivity. ... In a lot of contemporary works on popular culture, one gets the impression that scholars want to rationalize their own fandom and their love for commodity culture by trying to identify progressive political aspects of the consumption and logic of cultural commodities. Because they like spending their work time and free time consuming popular culture, they tend to justify this behaviour as a form of political movement itself. Most intellectuals are probably fond of some type of popular culture, but it makes a difference whether one sees and celebrates this fondness as an act of resistance or not.