Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 391 g
Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation
Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 391 g
ISBN: 978-1-5095-0776-4
Verlag: Polity Press
Geert Lovink strides into the frenzied social media debate with Social Media Abyss - the fifth volume of his ongoing investigation into critical internet culture. He examines the symbiotic yet problematic relation between networks and social movements, and further develops the notion of organized networks. Lovink doesn't just submit to the empty soul of 24/7 communication but rather provides the reader with radical alternatives.
Selfie culture is one of many Lovink's topics, along with the internet obsession of American writer Jonathan Franzen, the internet in Uganda, the aesthetics of Anonymous and an anatomy of the Bitcoin religion. Will monetization through cybercurrencies and crowdfunding contribute to a redistribution of wealth or further widen the gap between rich and poor? In this age of the free, how a revenue model of the 99% be collectively designed? Welcome back to the Social Question.
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- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Preparing for Uncommon Departures
1. What is the Social in Social Media?
2. After the Social Media Hype: Dealing with Information Overload
3. A World Beyond Facebook: The Alternative of Unlike Us
4. Hermes on the Hudson: Media Theory After Snowden
5. Internet Revenue ModelsÑA Personal Account
6. The MoneyLab Agenda: After Free Culture
7. For Bitcoin to Live, Bitcoin Must Die
8. Netcore in Uganda: The i-network Community
9. Jonathan Franzen as Symptom: Internet Resentment
10. Urbanizing as a Verb: The Map is not the Tech
11. Expanded Updates: Fragments of Net Criticism
12. Occupy and the Politics of Organized Networks
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