Informational capitalism, social networks and mobile devices: articulation hypotheses

Authors

  • Carla Rodrigues PUC-Rio

Keywords:

capitalism, social network, mobile devices

Abstract

This article presents some of the main characteristics of informational capitalism to discuss the incorporation of job requirements this mode of production, such as flexibility, adaptability, malleability, deterritorialization and the use of mechanisms of control in culture and in social life. It suggests that the overstatement of this incorporation is manifested in both the use of social networks and the expansion of the web to include mobile devices, which are taken as examples of voluntary surrender to what Gilles Deleuze calls a society of control.

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Author Biography

Carla Rodrigues, PUC-Rio

É professora agregada do Departamento de Comunicação Social da PUC-Rio e professora do curso de pós-graduação stricto sensu “Filosofias da diferença”, também na PUC-Rio. Mestre e doutoranda em Filosofia (PUC-Rio), é pesquisadora do Núcleo de Estudos sobre Ética e Desconstrução (PUC-Rio) e do Khôra – Laboratório de Filosofias da Alteridade (UFRJ). É autora, entre outros, de “Coreografias do feminino” (Editora Mulheres, 2009), e organizadora de “Jornalismo on-line: modos de fazer” (Nau Editora, Editora PUC-Rio, 2009). carla@puc-rio.br

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Published

2010-12-28

Issue

No. 20 (2010)

Section

Dossiê | Dossier

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