Marxist

• Marxism

  • Bourdieu - social and cultural capital
  • Cornford and Robins - digital communication as a method of capitalist control to make profit
  • ’Surveillance Capitalism’
• Marxist view on digital forms of communication

  • social media increases social connections
  • digital social media is a powerful way for the ruling class to bring about cultural hegemony
  • those who participate in the new digital culture are not created equal
  • the internet is a method of surveillance used by the wealthy to control and regulate people
• Criticisms of the Marxist view

  it over-emphasises social class at the expense of other inequalities that may also result in muted voices, eg. ethnicity