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- Title
The Flâneur, the Badaud and Empathetic Worker.
- Authors
Netchitailova, Ekaterina
- Abstract
In this paper, based on the development of the 'empathic' badaud in France at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries, I draw some parallels with a Facebook user. The experience of Facebook's users is explored through the juxtaposition of two terms: the flâneur (a stroller) and the badaud (gawker), and a third term is proposed, the one of an empathetic worker, by applying critical media/cultural studies. My main argument is that the Facebook user can experience the network at different levels. It is still possible to be the flâneur while being on the network, when the user uses Facebook solely for the purpose of discovery. It is also possible to be the badaud when we log into the network for its sensational purposes, for gossip and mindless entertainment. And finally, the user also works for the corporation, since all interactions, feelings and emotions, are turned by Facebook into profit.
- Subjects
FACEBOOK (Web resource); INTERNET users; GOSSIP; INTERNET &; society; SOCIAL networks; CULTURAL studies
- Publication
TripleC (Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation): Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 2014, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1726-670X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.31269/triplec.v12i1.500