[Nettime-nl] video interview met Geert Lovink over Networks Without a Cause (Polity Press 2012)

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

Hi,

Begin januari komt het boek Networks Without a Cause, A Critique of  
Social Media door Geert Lovink uit (Polity Press 2012).

Hieronder een korte omschrijving. In het kader van dit boek zijn er  
een aantal korte video interviews met Geert opgenomen over de volgende  
onderwerpen

-Critique of Social Media
-Politics of Wikileaks
-Aesthetics of Online Video
-Society of the Query: From Link to Like
-Anonymity, Facebook and Information Overload
-Principles of Net Criticism
Over het boek: 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.

Voor de volledige blogpost met links hier:

http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/weblog/2011/06/27/networks-without-a-cause/


Groet,
Margreet


Margreet Riphagen
--

Domein Media, Creatie en Informatie
Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Rhijnspoorplein 1
1091 GC Amsterdam
kamer 05A07
020 5951866
NL-1000 BA Amsterdam


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