Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation
Geert Lovink
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Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference to technologies of capture and cultures of fear. Despite the incursion into privacy by companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon, social media use continues to be a daily habit with shrinking gadgets now an integral part of our busy lives. We are thrown between addiction anxiety and subliminal, obsessive use. Where does art, culture and criticism venture when ... Read more
Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference to technologies of capture and cultures of fear. Despite the incursion into privacy by companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon, social media use continues to be a daily habit with shrinking gadgets now an integral part of our busy lives. We are thrown between addiction anxiety and subliminal, obsessive use. Where does art, culture and criticism venture when ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
398g
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509507764
SKU
V9781509507764
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99-50
About Geert Lovink
Geert Lovink is founder of the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School.
Reviews for Social Media Abyss: Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation
For nearly thirty years, Geert Lovink has been the singular vanguard of net criticism. Zeroing in on what we are doing before we know that we are doing it, he poses the questions not that we should now ask but that we must ask next. Social Media Abyss is Lovink at his insightful, provocative, best. Jodi Dean, ... Read more