Networks without a cause : (Record no. 137970)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780745649689
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System control number (Sirsi) a95140
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System control number (Sirsi) a95140
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Classification number HM 742 .L69 2011
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Lovink, Geert.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Networks without a cause :
Remainder of title a critique of social media /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Geert Lovink.
246 ## - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title Critique of social media
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge, UK ;
-- Malden, Mass. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Polity,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent vii, 221 p. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-221).
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 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 -- Blogging after the hype: Germany, France, Iraq -- Radio after radio: from pirate to Internet experiments -- Online video aesthetics or the art of watching databases -- Society of the query: the Googlization of our lives -- Organizing networks in culture and politics -- Techno-politics at WikiLeaks.
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Summary, etc. 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. With a dearth of theory on the social and cultural ramifications of hugely popular online services, Lovink provides a path-breaking critical analysis of our over-hyped, networked world with case studies on search engines, online video, blogging, digital radio, media activism and the Wikileaks saga. This book offers a powerful message to media practitioners and theorists: let us collectively unleash our critical capacities to influence technology design and workspaces, otherwise we will disappear into the cloud. Probing but never pessimistic, Lovink draws from his long history in media research to offer a critique of the political structures and conceptual powers embedded in the technologies that shape our daily lives.
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    Library of Congress Classification     Storms Research Center Storms Research Center Main Collection 10/28/2025   HM 742 .L69 2011 98653077 10/28/2025 24.99 10/28/2025 Book