Network-society scholarship neglects how new capitalist technologies create collective myths and imaginaries

Evidence

But such major works have tended to focus more on the diffusion of information and data and their role in the development of social ties and less on the creation of collective myths and imaginations made possible through new capitalist technologies. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 284

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: which works actually do address collective imagination via technology, and what do they get right or miss?
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s finance/prediction-markets interest — the gap between information diffusion and imagination production is exactly the space speculation occupies. — connects to: Technological determinism falsely credits tools alone with causing social change — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 59; Technology usage alone fails to indicate real social power — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 85