Alienation on Social Media

Prediction of academic achievement motivation based on academic alienation, social support, media usage and demographic variables

Academic achievement motivation plays an important role in academic success, so its prediction and improvement is very important. This study investigated the relationship between academic achievement motivation and academic alienation, social support, media usage and demographic variables, and also predicted academic achievement motivation.study was correlational. Its statistical population inc...

Understanding Social Media Use as Alienation: a review and critique

The opportunities social media provide for agential expressions of subjectivity and experiential learning, relative to social media’s role in reproducing digital-era capitalism, are the subject of keen debate. There is now a burgeoning academic literature which suggests that social media users are, to a greater or lesser degree, alienated by the activities of mega-corporations like Google and F...

Policy Alienation , Social Alienation and Working - Class Abstention in Britain , 1964 – 2010 OLIVER HEATH

This article presents an examination of class-based inequalities in turnout at British elections. These inequalities have substantially grown, and the class divide in participation has become greater than the class divide in vote choice between the two main parties. To account for class inequalities in turnout three main hypotheses – to do with policy indifference, policy alienation and social ...

Frankenstein: An Echo of Social Alienation and Social Madness

Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’, through the portray of the ‘monster’ hints the uncanny defamiliarization of the familiar role of the society. It shows how the society if anybody does not suit its taste alienates that from itself. The monster’s hideous appearance is the reason of the society’s disliking it and so it is regarded with disgust and hatred. This results not only in the reader’s realiz...

A Historical Perspective on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Parental Alienation