Veblen 2.0: Neoliberal Games of Social Capital and the Attention Economy as Conspicuous Consumption

The purpose of this article will be in reading acts of prosumer behaviour in social networking environments through a Veblenian lens, supported in part by the post-Marxist insights of Guy Debord, especially with respect to the issue of celebrity emulation, conspicuous leisure as constructed by the l...

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Main Author: Kane Xavier Faucher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: tripleC 2014-02-01
Series:tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique
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Online Access:https://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/530