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Waste : a new media primer / Roberto Simanowski ; translated by Amanda DeMarco and Susan H. Gillespie.
Van Pelt Library HM742 .S56313 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simanowski, Roberto, author.
- Series:
- Untimely meditations ; 13.
- Untimely meditations ; 13
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Online social networks--Social aspects.
- Online social networks.
- Online social networks--Philosophy.
- Digital media--Philosophy.
- Digital media.
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 130 pages ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Series of essay chapters (a number of which first saw publication in German in mainstream newspapers and magazines) addresses how Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and other forms of social media work (and that broader "by-product" of the militaristic ARPANET, the internet), what they do to and with the people who use them, and how they have changed and are continuing to change cultural reality:-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Waste : an introduction
- The question of guilt : Trump and Zuckerberg
- Faust on Facebook
- Loss of privacy
- The fateful year 1984
- Life as an archive
- The digital Madeleine
- The moral of the haiku
- The no-photo day
- The dialectics of participation
- The death of the experts
- Shitstorm
- Nerd attack
- Communication utopias
- Why Facebook is rescuing us.
- Notes:
- Translation of the author's Abfall : das alternative ABC der neuen Medien; first published: Berlin : Matthes & Seitz, 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-130).
- ISBN:
- 9780262536271
- 0262536277
- OCLC:
- 1029798689
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