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Book Synopsis* This book is a cutting-edge critical analysis of our contemporary networked world.
Trade Review"Geert Lovink is one of the most brilliant and original theorists around today … This is a highly engaging book, packed thick with arguments … Every word Lovink writes elicits a response."
The Huffington Post "This book offers a number of strong points which help to regain focus on establishing and nurturing much-needed alternative networks."
Neural "Makes a unique contribution by effectively capturing the technological specificities of Web 2.0 amidst the larger issues of technocapitalism, while not erasing possibilities for organization and change."
Mobile Media and Communication "Geert Lovink is our Tin Tin. Like that canny adventurer, he travels the world discovering new frontiers of both folly and invention. In place of Tin Tin's trusty dog Snowy, he takes with him a quick wit and independent mind. He has a detective's eye for the real story behind the bright assurances of twenty-first-century networked culture."
McKenzie Wark, Professor of Culture and Media, The New School, and author of Gamer Theory "This book proposes a new kind of memory for the computer: counter-memory, revisiting recent pasts, deep presents and near-miss futures, always challenging us to ask of, and to invent, the nature of networks."
Matthew Fuller, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
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
Society of the Query: The Googlization of our Lives
Online Video Aesthetics or the Art of Watching
Databases
Blog Theory after the Hype
Three Blogospheres: Germany, France, Iraq
Radio after Radio: From Pirate to Internet Experiments
Techno-Politics at Wikileaks
Organizing Networks in Culture and Politics
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