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Artikel-Nr:
9780745339344
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2019
Seiten:
192
Autor:
Geert Lovink
Gewicht:
249 g
Format:
216x140x11 mm
Serie:
Digital Barricades
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Geert Lovink is a media theorist, internet critic and author of Zero Comments (Routledge, 2007), Networks Without a Cause (Polity, 2012), Social Media Abyss (Polity, 2016) and Sad By Design (Pluto, 2019). He founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and teaches at the European Graduate School.
Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app.Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of the growing social media controversies such as fake news, toxic viral memes and online addiction. The failed search for a grand design has resulted in depoliticised internet studies unable to generate either radical critique or a search for alternatives.Geert Lovink calls for us to embrace the engineered intimacy of social media, messenger apps and selfies, because boredom is the first stage of overcoming 'platform nihilism'. Then, after the haze, we can organise to disrupt the data extraction industries at their core.
We live in a time of engineered intimacy, toxic memes and online addiction. Can we ever break free?