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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 672613
TI  - Networks without a cause : a critique of social media
AU  - Lovink, Geert
AU  - Polity
PY  - 2011
SN  - 9780745649672 9780745649689 0745649688 074564967X
PB  - Cambridge ; Malden Polity
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Mass communications
KW  - Online social networks
KW  - Réseautage personnel (Informatique)
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Aspect Social
KW  - Cas, Etudes de
KW  - Sociological aspects.
KW  - media
KW  - massamedia
KW  - mediatheorie
KW  - eenentwintigste eeuw
KW  - sociale netwerken
KW  - internet
KW  - zoekmachines
KW  - blogs
KW  - digitale radio
KW  - Facebook
KW  - online video
KW  - cultuursociologie
KW  - 791.5
KW  - 130.2
KW  - Réseautage personnel (Informatique)
KW  - Electronic social networks
KW  - Social networking Web sites
KW  - Social media
KW  - Social networks
KW  - Sociotechnical systems
KW  - Web sites
KW  - Sociological aspects
KW  - Social aspects.
KW  - Case studies.
KW  - Virtual communities
KW  - Communities, Online (Online social networks)
KW  - Communities, Virtual (Online social networks)
KW  - Online communities (Online social networks)
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:672613
AB  - 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.
ER  -