The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy

Jeremiah Morelock, Ph.D. is an instructor of sociology at Boston College’s Woods College of Advancing Studies, the project coordinator of the Taking Care of Us study as well as a postdoctoral researcher at the William F. Connell School of Nursing at Boston College, and the founder and director of the Research Network on Dialectics & Society. He is the author of Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction: Medicine, Militarism, and Morality in American Film (Routledge, 2021), and the editor of Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (UWP, 2018) and How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School (Brill, 2021).

Felipe Ziotti Narita, Ph.D. received postdoctoral trainings at the University of São Paulo (USP) and Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) and received his Ph.D. from the São Paulo State University (UNESP). He is a lecturer in public policy at UNESP and associate researcher in the social sciences at the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), and Director of research at Baron of Mauá University. He was an invited researcher at the Forschungskreis Gregor Girard at the Universität Freiburg (Switzerland) and is a member of the Research Network on Dialectics & Society, Research Nucleus on Ethics, Philosophy and Social Theory of UNESP, Historiar (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil) and the Laboratory for the Study and Research on Education of USP. He is the author of many book chapters and articles on social theory, social movements and contemporary history. He is the author of O Século e o Império (Appris, 2014) and with Jeremiah Morelock the author of O Problema do Populismo (UNESP and Paco Press, 2019) and the editor of Latency of the Crisis (Praktyka Teoretyczna, 2021).