Digital vertigo : how today's online social revolution is dividing, diminishing, and disorienting us / Andrew Keen.
2012
HM851 .K443 2012 (Mapit)
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Title
Digital vertigo : how today's online social revolution is dividing, diminishing, and disorienting us / Andrew Keen.
Author
Keen, Andrew.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780312624989
0312624980
0312624980
Imprint
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
246 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
HM851 .K443 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.23/1
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.
"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.
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Table of 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.
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.