Networks Without a Cause: A Critique of Social Media

by Geert Lovink

Book Overview

With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of 'friending', 'liking' and 'commenting', at what point do we pause to grasp the consequences of our info-saturated lives? What compels us to engage so diligently with social networking systems? Networks Without a Cause examines our collective obsession with identity and self-management coupled with the fragmentation and information overload endemic to contemporary online culture.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745649688
• ISBN13: 9780745649689
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"