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The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honoured and looked up to with reverent awe. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation. The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. As Marx said in The Communist Manifesto : By focusing on the neuroscience of social media addiction and how apps are designed to maximize engagement, the documentary brushes over the role market imperatives have in structuring and shaping technology to maximize profit 1, and ignores the way economic factors are responsible for destroying the social fabric of communities.Ĭritiques of ever-increasing alienation due to the trajectory of bourgeois mass society stretch from the beginning of the communist movement through the work of critics like Theodor Adorno, Thorstein Veblen, and Guy Debord. However, like many standard left-liberal documentaries (think Michael Moore), the film presents the overview of a significant issue and suggests mild reforms to solve it while ignoring the elephant in the room: capitalism. The film blames the present-day political radicalization on careful design choices in social media platforms which keep us hooked to the apps, and make us vulnerable to this sort of manipulation. Combining docudrama and interviews with former social media platform workers, the film is a mashup of the fictionalized story of a social media addict, who becomes radicalized through anti-establishment “fake news” (with no obvious left or right bent), and ends up arrested at a demonstration, and the real stories of Europeans traveling to Syria and Iraq to enlist in ISIS and white Americans joining white supremacist organizations. The Social Dilemma is an impressive film on how social media is affecting the way we relate to each other.

Technology Frustration and Cyberattack by Nalisda. Instead, the left needs its own approach to social media that takes into account the values encoded into tech platforms. Amelia Davenport and Renato Flores argue that social media cannot be ignored despite its negative effects on modern culture.

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