Digital vertigo : how today's online social revolution is dividing, diminishing, and disorienting us / Andrew Keen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keen, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Social aspects.

Internet.

Information society.

Social media.

Physical Description:

246 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.

Summary:

""Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution." --Larry Downes, author of The Killer App In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be. "--Provided by publisher.

"In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Hypervisibility

A simple idea of architecture

Let's get naked

Visibility is a trap

Digital vertigo

The cult of the social

The age of the great exhibition

The age of great exhibitionism

The best picture of 2011

Conclusion: the woman in blue.

ISBN:

9780312624989

0312624980

9781429940962

1429940964

OCLC:

759914158

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