Networks without a cause : a critique of social media / Geert Lovink.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, 2011Description: vii, 221 pISBN: 9780745649672 (hbk.) :; 074564967X (hbk.) :; 9780745649689 (pbk.) :; 0745649688 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Online social networks -- Sociological aspectsDDC classification: 302.3'0285 Summary: This title offers a cutting-edge critical analysis of our contemporary networked world. Why are so many people so obsessed with social network sites like Facebook? Lovink dissects our collective obsession with identity, together with the fragmentation and information overload endemic to today's online culture.
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| 302.30285 FAC Facebook and philosophy : what's on your mind? / | 302.30285 FUC Culture and economy in the age of social media / | 302.30285 HAR Internet security : how to defend against attackers on the web / | 302.30285 LOV Networks without a cause : a critique of social media / | 302.30285 MEI Media convergence : networked digital media in everyday life / | 302.30285 MEI Media convergence : networked digital media in everyday life / | 302.30285 ROS Constructing Digital Cultures. |
This title offers a cutting-edge critical analysis of our contemporary networked world. Why are so many people so obsessed with social network sites like Facebook? Lovink dissects our collective obsession with identity, together with the fragmentation and information overload endemic to today's online culture.
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