“User–generated content is commonly known as
social media. These virtual communications can be approached from the Bhaskarian critical realist and Marxist–Luxemburgist perspective perspective of
Dialectical metaRealism™. According to this inclusive framework, social media represent a shift away from an informational
oligarchy (elite dominance and disunity) toward media
democracy (emancipation and unity in diversity). Consequently, average persons are no longer exclusively the
consumers of information. They can now become—sometimes through a direct participation in processes of syndication—the
producers,
purveyors, and
publishers of diverse subject matter.”
— Mark A. Foster, Ph.D.
