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Dyer-Witheford, N. (2018). Mass culture and the internet. In B. BestW. Bonefeld & C. O’Kane The sage handbook of frankfurt school critical theory (Vol. 3, pp. 1487-1502). 55 City Road, London: SAGE Publications Ltd doi: 10.4135/9781526436122.n90

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. "Mass Culture and the Internet." In The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory, 1487-1502. 55 City Road, London: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018. doi: 10.4135/9781526436122.n90.

Dyer-Witheford, N 2018, 'Mass culture and the internet', in The sage handbook of frankfurt school critical theory, SAGE Publications Ltd, 55 City Road, London, pp. 1487-1502, viewed 13 December 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781526436122.n90.

Dyer-Witheford, Nick. "Mass Culture and the Internet." The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory. Beverley BestWerner Bonefeld and Chris O’Kane. Vol. 3. 55 City Road: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2018. 1487-1502. SAGE Knowledge. Web. 13 Dec. 2019, doi: 10.4135/9781526436122.n90.

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Mass Culture and the Internet
Mass Culture and the Internet
Nick Dyer-Witheford
Introduction: Downloading the Culture Industry

With an Internet connection you can download a free copy of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s ‘The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception’ (2002 [1947]: 94–136) and, also for free, globally share your thoughts about it across social media. Is the contradiction between the essay’s coruscating critique of commodified culture and its apparently costless worldwide circulation a signal that cornucopian digital networks have completely outrun the grasp of critical theory? Or do Horkheimer and Adorno truculently maintain their relevance even in the face of Google, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat? This chapter considers some moments in the short, fast history of the Internet and arguments made at ...

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