Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism - Couverture souple

Lovink, Geert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745339344 ISBN 13 : 9780745339344

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2019

Synopsis

Melancholy has always been with us. Nowadays, though, it's a design problem--its highs and lows coded into the social media platforms on which we spend so much of our lives. We click, we scroll; we swipe, we like. And after it all, we wonder where the time went, and what, other than a flat and empty feeling, we got for it.
Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of our social media environment and what it's doing to us. Geert Lovink analyzes the problems of toxic viral memes, online addiction, and the lure of fake news. He shows how attempts to design sites to solve these problems have, in their studied efforts to be apolitical, been unable to generate either a serious critique or legitimate alternatives. But there is an answer: Lovink calls for us to acknowledge the engineered intimacy of these sites--because boredom, he argues, is the first stage of overcoming "platform nihilism," which can free us to organize to stop the data harvesting industries that run them.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Geert Lovink is a media theorist, internet critic and author of Zero Comments (Routledge, 2007), Networks Without a Cause (Polity, 2012), Social Media Abyss (Polity, 2016) and Sad By Design (Pluto, 2019). He founded the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and teaches at the European Graduate School.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745339344
• ISBN 13: 9780745339344
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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