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Author(s): Geert Lovink
ISBN(s): 9780745649689, 0745649688
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 4.32 MB
Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0745649688

ISBN 13: 9780745649689

Author: Geert Lovink

With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of ‘friending’, ‘liking’ and ‘commenting’, at what point do we pause to grasp the consequences of our info-saturated lives? What compels us to engage so diligently with social networking systems? Networks Without a Cause examines our collective obsession with identity and self-management coupled with the fragmentation and information overload endemic to contemporary online culture.

With a dearth of theory on the social and cultural ramifications of hugely popular online services, Lovink provides a path-breaking critical analysis of our over-hyped, networked world with case studies on search engines, online video, blogging, digital radio, media activism and the Wikileaks saga. This book offers a powerful message to media practitioners and theorists: let us collectively unleash our critical capacities to influence technology design and workspaces, otherwise we will disappear into the cloud. Probing but never pessimistic, Lovink draws from his long history in media research to offer a critique of the political structures and conceptual powers embedded in the technologies that shape our daily lives.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction: Capturing Web 2.0 Before its Disappearance

Chapter 2: Psychopathology of Information Overload

Chapter 3: Facebook, Anonymity and the Crisis of the Multiple Self

Chapter 4: Treatise on Comment Culture

Chapter 5: Disquisition on Internet Criticism

Chapter 6: Media Studies – Diagnostics of a Failed Merger

Chapter 7: Society of the Query: The Googlization of our Lives

Chapter 8: Online Video Aesthetics or the Art of Watching Databases

Chapter 9: Blog Theory after the Hype

Chapter 10: Three Blogospheres: Germany, France, Iraq

Chapter 11: Radio after Radio: From Pirate to Internet Experiments

Chapter 12: Techno-Politics at Wikileaks

Chapter 13: Organizing Networks in Culture and Politics

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