Culture and Economy

• Economy and culture once cast as “self” and “other” (Crang,1997)• Theoretical developments with the cultural turn

Source: Lagendijk 2006

THEORITICAL DEBATES

• Economy - culture distinction ‘is now quite useless’ (Hall, 1988)

• Economy - culture distinction still holds (Harvey, 2000)

• The ‘middle way’ (Crang, 1997) (McDowell, 2010) -Economisation of culture -Culturalisation of the economy

FACEBOOK- THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY• Social network market

- Choice to consume is determined by the choices of others in the same network- Choices made are status-based- “Attention economy”

• Viral marketing-Appvertising

•“Cyber-capitalism”- Accumulation of resources - Investment

SOCIAL CAPITAL, NETWORK & “CYBER-CULTURE”

• Social Capital - an accessible “public good”

• Social Network - inclusion and exclusion

• “Cyber-culture” - norms based on shared experiences and virtual location

not on common history and physical location

• (Re)creation of identity

SURVEILLANCE

• Why surveillance?

• Panopticon

• Self-policing (community users, individuals)

CHINA’S FACEBOOK BAN

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1908785,00.html

SITE OF RESISTANCE

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/g20_protests_in_toronto.html

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/g20_protests_in_toronto.html

REFERENCES• Ellison, N., Steinfield, C., and Lampe, C. (2006). ‘Spatially bounded online social

networks and social capital: The role of Facebook’, Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, 1-37.

• Westlake, E.J. (2008). ‘Friend Me if You Facebook: Generation Y and Performative Surveillance’, MIT Press Journals, 52 (4).

• Joinson, A. N. (2008). ‘Looking at, Looking up or Keeping up with People: Motives and uses of Facebook’, CHI 2008 Proceedings: Online Social Networks, 1027-1036.

• Mitchell, D. (2000). ‘Cultural studies and the new cultural geography’, in Cultural Geography: A Critical Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell,37-65.

• Mohan, G., and Mohan, J. (2002). ‘Placing Social Capital’, Progress in Human Geography, 26: 191-210.

• Putnam, R. (1995a). ‘Tuning in, Tuning out: The strange disappearance of social capital in America’, Political Science and Politics, 28: 667-683.

• Standlee, A. (2008). ‘Sims, Skins and Avatars: Culture and Identity in the Age of Internet’, Dissertation Proposal: Department of Sociology, Syracuse University, 1-11.

WEBSITES• http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1908785,00.html

• http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1920276/china_bans_access_to_facebook_and_twitter.html?cat=7

• http://www.economist.com/node/13988479

• http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-02-08/race-to-be-china-s-facebook-pits-renren-against-tencent-baidu.html

• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55140249039

• http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=247474311864

• http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/woman_responsible_for_organizi.html