Networks without a cause : a critique of social media /

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 Witho...

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Main Author: Lovink, Geert
Format: Book
Published: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Polity, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: capturing Web 2.0 before its disappearance
  • Psychopathology of information overload
  • Facebook, anonymity, and the crisis of the multiple self
  • Treatise on comment culture
  • Disquisition on Internet criticism
  • Media studies: diagnostics of a failed merger
  • Blogging after the hype: Germany, France, Iraq
  • Radio after radio: from pirate to Internet experiments
  • Online video aesthetics or the art of watching databases
  • Society of the query: the Googlization of our lives
  • Organizing networks in culture and politics
  • Techno-politics at WikiLeaks.