{"product_id":"social-media-abyss-by-geert-lovink-9781509507764","title":"Social Media Abyss","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSocial Media Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference to technologies of capture and cultures of fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite the incursion into privacy by companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon, social media use continues to be a daily habit with shrinking gadgets now an integral part of our busy lives. We are thrown between addiction anxiety and subliminal, obsessive use. Where does art, culture and criticism venture when the digital vanishes into the background?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeert Lovink strides into the frenzied social media debate with \u003cem\u003eSocial Media Abyss\u003c\/em\u003e – the fifth volume of his ongoing investigation into critical internet culture. He examines the symbiotic yet problematic relation between networks and social movements, and further develops the notion of organised networks. Lovink doesn't just submit to the empty soul of 24\/7 communication but rather provides the reader with radical alternatives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSelfie culture is one of Lovink's many topics, along with the internet obsession of American writer Jonathan Franzen, the internet in Uganda, the aesthetics of Anonymous and an anatomy of the Bitcoin religion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWill monetisation through cybercurrencies and crowdfunding contribute to a redistribution of wealth or further widen the gap between rich and poor? In this age of the free, how can a revenue model of the 99% be collectively designed? Welcome back to the Social Question.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461422858476,"sku":"9781509507764","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781509507764-social-media-abyss.jpg?v=1774967373","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/social-media-abyss-by-geert-lovink-9781509507764","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}