The Value System

Michael Strangelove

"The audience is not the same as it once was in the 1900s. Our global context has also dramatically changed. Climate change is creating conditions of impending civilizational collapse, and hundreds of millions of Internet-enabled citizens have greatly expanded communicative freedoms and productive, distributive, and collective capabilities. How will these forces interact in a world defined by authoritarian governments, ineffective democracies, and crisis-ridden economies? ... The ecological impact of the Internet is brought into the centre of media theory and social analysis. Climate change provides a global and authoritative measurement of capitalism's value system and its consequences. Strangelove argues that the worst consequences of climate change can be resolved only if we correct the toxic character of capitalism's value system and build new value systems out of the raw cultural material of cyberspace. ... The Value System concludes with a theory of how the Internet mediates radical change across social, political, and economic areas of action."

• Social media
• Climatic changes
• Internet
• Social aspects
• Mass media and world politics
• Mass media and public opinion
• Mass media and culture