{"product_id":"networks-without-a-cause-a-critique-of-social-me-dia-9780745649689","title":"Networks Without a Cause  A Critique of Social Me","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* This book is a cutting-edge critical analysis of our contemporary networked world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This book offers a number of strong points which help to regain focus on establishing and nurturing much-needed alternative networks.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeural\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMobile Media and Communication\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wark, Professor of Culture and Media, The New School, and author of \u003ci\u003eGamer Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMatthew Fuller, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Capturing Web 2.0 Before its \u003cbr\u003eDisappearance\u003cbr\u003ePsychopathology of Information Overload\u003cbr\u003eFacebook, Anonymity and the Crisis of the Multiple Self\u003cbr\u003eTreatise on Comment Culture\u003cbr\u003eDisquisition on Internet Criticism\u003cbr\u003eMedia Studies - Diagnostics of a Failed Merger\u003cbr\u003eSociety of the Query: The Googlization of our Lives\u003cbr\u003eOnline Video Aesthetics or the Art of Watching \u003cbr\u003eDatabases\u003cbr\u003eBlog Theory after the Hype\u003cbr\u003eThree Blogospheres: Germany, France, Iraq\u003cbr\u003eRadio after Radio: From Pirate to Internet Experiments\u003cbr\u003eTechno-Politics at Wikileaks\u003cbr\u003eOrganizing Networks in Culture and Politics\u003cbr\u003eBibliography","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736485278039,"sku":"9780745649689","price":17.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/networks-without-a-cause-a-critique-of-social-me-dia-9780745649689","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}