Abstract

This study aims to reveal the cultural aspects of digital society by discussing the views of scholars in the field. In liberal digital culture debates, digital platforms are regarded as alternative meeting places and democratic user-friendly spaces. As it is known, cutural materials can be deployed easily, instantly, and globally through digital technologies. People build online communities and share photos, videos, images, opinions with others by using social networks. Critical digital culture studies pointed out that the digital platform companies dominate the digital culture industry. Digital culture is shaped by the capitalist accumulation, so the functions of digital platforms are limited. In this study, digital culture is defined to build common meanings, values, experiences, and practices via digital platforms. In addition, a dialectic model is developed to comprehend the digital culture together with the political economic structure that transform it.

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