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Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism

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Availability:In StockContributor:Geert LovinkSeries:Digital BarricadesPublish date:2019-05-01Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pluto Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780745339344ISBN-10:745339344UPC:9780745339344Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Public Policy, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Science & Technology Policy, RadicalismSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC5R5JB92A
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pluto Press (UK)ISBN-13:9780745339344ISBN-10:745339344UPC:9780745339344Book Category:Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Media Studies, Public Policy, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Science & Technology Policy, RadicalismSize:8.40 x 5.50 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SC5R5JB92A
Geert Lovink is a media theorist and internet critic and the author of Zero Comments, Networks Without a Cause, and Social Media Abyss. He founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and teaches at the European Graduate School. He stopped using Facebook in 2010.

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