TY - JOUR A1 - Morelock, Jeremiah A1 - Ziotti Narita, Felipe T1 - Beyond Spiked Honey: Liberation, Eudaimonia, and Social Self-Actualization JF - J. Fantauzzi, M. Levitin, T. Maley (Eds.), Erich Fromm and Left Strategy . New Paths Toward Radical Transformation, New York (Palgrave Macmillan) 2025, pp. 047-068. Y1 - 2025 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Morelock, Jeremiah A1 - Ziotti Narita, Felipe T1 - The Society of the Selfie. Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy, London (University of Westminster Press) 2022, 191 pp. [eISBN 978-1-914386-26-8] [doi.org/10.16997/book59] N2 - This book explores how the Internet is connected to the global crisis of liberal democracy. Today, self-promotion is at the heart of many human relationships. The selfie is not just a social media gesture people love to hate. It is also a symbol of social reality in the age of the Internet. Through social media people have new ways of rating and judging themselves and one another, via metrics such as likes, shares, followers and friends. There are new thirsts for authenticity, outlets for verbal aggression, and social problems. Social media culture and neoliberalism dovetail and amplify one another, feeding social estrangement. With neoliberalism, psychosocial wounds are agitated and authoritarianism is provoked. Yet this new sociality also inspires resistance and political mobilisation. Illustrating ideas and trends with examples from news and popular culture, the book outlines and applies theories from Debord, Foucault, Fromm, Goffman, and Giddens, among others. Topics covered include the global history of communication technologies, personal branding, echo chamber effects, alienation and fear of abnormality. Information technologies provide channels for public engagement where extreme ideas reach farther and faster than ever before, and political differences are widened and inflamed. They also provide new opportunities for protest and resistance. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Morelock, Jeremiah A1 - Ziotti Narita, Felipe T1 - Dialectics of Alienation and Abnormality, in: Jeremiah Morelock and Felipe Ziotti Narita: The Society of the Selfie. Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy, London (University of Westminster Press) 2022, pp. 81-101. [jstor.org/stable/j.ctv282jfv5.8] N2 - [From Introduction] In this chapter we describe a complex, dialectical >system< of psycho-sociality. The system has four aspects, which we will discuss in relation to one another: alienation, ‘authenticity strain’, fear and normality/abnormality. We begin by defining our use of the term >alienation< here, where we will focus more on Fromm’s theory of alienation than Debord’s, although in the society of the selfie Debord’s and Fromm’s respective models of alienation can be understood as two wings of the same bird. Y1 - 2022 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Ziotti Narita, Jeremiah A1 - Morelock, Felipe T1 - The Society of the Selfie. Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy, London (University of Westminster Press) 2022, 191 pp. Y1 - 2022 ER -