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Networks Without a Cause

Autor Geert Lovink
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 mar 2012
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780745649689
ISBN-10: 0745649688
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 154 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Polity Press
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Those studying courses in Media Theory, Media Studies and New Media.

Notă biografică

Geert Lovink is director of the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, teaches in the new media program at the University of Amsterdam and is media theory professor at the European Graduate School.

Descriere

* This book is a cutting-edge critical analysis of our contemporary networked world.