Sad by Design , livre ebook

117

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English

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2019

Écrit par
Geert Lovink

Publié par
Pluto Press

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Publié par

Pluto Press

Date de parution

20 mai 2019

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781786804525

Langue

English

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.

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Society of the Social

1. Overcoming the Disillusioned Internet

2. Social Media as Ideology

3. Distraction and its Discontents

4. Sad by Design

5. Media Network Platform: Three Architectures

6. From Registration to Extermination: On Technological Violence

7. Narcissus Confirmed: Technologies of the Minimal Selfie

8. Mask Design: Aesthetics of the Faceless

9. Memes as Strategy: European Origins and Debates

10. Before Building the Avant-Garde of the Commons

Notes

Bibliography