Theory in a Digital Age: A Project of English 483 Students, Coastal Carolina University Main Menu Theory in a Digital Age Remediation This chapter will showcase how the remaking of art can leave its impact. Cornel West and Black Lives Matter MacKenzie McKeithan-Prickett Determination in Gaming The Mind Set and Experience The Hope for a Monstrous World Without Gender Introduction to "A Cyborg Manifesto" and Thesis Freud's Uncanny Double: A Theoretical Study of the Portrayal of Doubles in Film This chapter of the book will look at the history of the theme of the "double" using Freud's Uncanny as the theoretical insight of the self perception of the double in film/cinema. From Literacy to Electracy: Resistant Rhetorical Bodies in Digital Spaces Ashley Canter "Eddy and Edith": Online Identities vs. Offline Identities A fictional story about online identities and offline identities. (Also a mash-up video between Eddy and Edith and Break Free.) “Pieces of Herself”: Key Signifiers and Their Connotations Is the Sonographic Fetus a Cyborg? How sonographic technology initiates gendered socialization Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Digital Laborer Paradox of Race Dr. Cornel West, W.E.B Du Bois, and Natasha Trethewey Sleep Dealer - Digital Labor By Melissa Harby The Kevin Spacey Effect: Video Games as an Art Form, the Virtual Uncanny, and the Simulacrum The Twilight Zone in the Uncanny Valley Introduction The Virtual Economy and The Dark Web How Our Economy is Changing Behind the Scenes Transgender Representation and Acceptance in the Mainstream How the trans* movement has caused and exemplifies the spectralization of gender A Voice for the Humanities in A Divided America Dr. Cornel West on the indifference in our society and how he thinks the humanities can help heal it Reading Between the Lines: Diversity and Empowerment in Comics

Information Economy

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Mason explains in his article “The End of Capitalism Has Begun” that post-capitalism is possible through three things provided by information technology. The first of these is that the need for work has been reduced. The production of machines and automated labor have significantly changed the human workforce in terms of production. Think of car manufacturing. This also means the lines between work and free time are blurred (Mason). Mass amounts of data is produced when people spend time on Facebook, which is then used in algorithms to predict spending habits.

           An abundance in information is “corroding the market’s ability to form prices correctly” (Mason). Business markets are based on scarcity where information is profuse. Ideas are being used freely and business models cannot keep up. The worth of information is difficult to put a number on. “The knowledge content of products is becoming more valuable than the physical things that are used to produce them” (Mason). But the value is based on usefulness not its exchange value.

         

This page has paths:

  1. Introduction Madeline Shaw
  2. What's Next Madeline Shaw

Contents of this path:

  1. The Aesthetics of Commodities and the Simulacrum
  2. Antagonism of Capitalism
  3. The Long Tail
  4. Rise of Digital Labor
  5. What's Next

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