Sad by Design

On Platform Nihilism

AvGeert Lovink

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 14 mm
Vikt:394 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Digital Barricades
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745339351

Utforska kategorier

Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Naturvetenskap:allmänt inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

'Dystopian ... a scathing indictment of a technology that transforms the very notion of self into a sharing platform.'

Innehållsförteckning

Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Society of the Social1. Overcoming the Disillusioned Internet 2. Social Media as Ideology 3. Distraction and its Discontents 4. Sad by Design5. Media Network Platform: Three Architectures 6. From Registration to Extermination: On Technological Violence 7. Narcissus Confirmed: Technologies of the Minimal Selfie 8. Mask Design: Aesthetics of the Faceless 9. Memes as Strategy: European Origins and Debates 10. Before Building the Avant-Garde of the Commons Notes Bibliography