Consent layered through digital networks can function as coercion

Evidence

See Grewal, Network Power, on how interlocking forms of consent within digital networks can amount to force. Compare Bratton, The Stack, 43; and Chun, Programmed Visions. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 690

Categorization

• XREF: A counterpoint to the attention-school emphasis on exploitative but voluntary engagement — the colonial frame reads consent itself as structured by prior material pressure. — connects to: Formal democratic liberties rest on an unseen foundation of physical coercion — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 346; Hegemony runs on consent backed by a standby coercive apparatus; Appearance-based identity signaling only stabilizes social order when backed by coercion (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Hegemony runs on consent backed by a standby coercive apparatus #complicates (0.78)
• Formal democratic liberties rest on an unseen foundation of physical coercion #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 346
• Appearance-based identity signaling only stabilizes social order when backed by coercion #expands (0.72)
• Networked audiences enable public enforcement of social norms #complicates (0.72) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 575