Karen Patel - Social Media Method
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The document discusses the role of social media in cultural work, particularly how cultural workers like artists use these platforms for inspiration and connection. It emphasizes the ideological nature of algorithms and their impact on social media's influence in cultural labor. The author argues that social media operates within specific structural and temporal frameworks shaped by ownership and power dynamics.
Karen Patel - Social Media Method
- 1. Social Media Method Karen Patel Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research
- 2. Not enough empiricism My example social media and cultural work Power of the platform Social media method
- 7. The social media use of cultural workers Role of social media in cultural labour (artists) PresenceDown time Inspiration Listening (Crawford, 2009)
- 8. The social media use of cultural workers
- 9. Power of the platform Temporal Structural Ownership We argue that algorithms are always/already ideological (Mager, 2012), in the way of all mediating technology (Postman, 1992) because they operate for particular interests (such as Facebooks capital expansion) and have been developed through different histories of power. (Skeggs and Yuill, 2015:12)