Politics in the Social Media Age: The Dominance of Pseudo-Intimacy in Contemporary Politics

• In Event: Citizenship as Consumership? Exploring Political Agency, Contestation, and Control Amidst New Media and Technologies

Brief Overview

A desire for feeling known dominates the spaces previously inhabited by politics. This has shifted the realm of politics from the social to the intimate, and has been facilitated by social media.

Author

• Jeremiah Daniel Grove, University of Illinois Chicago