Description: Sad by Design : On Platform Nihilism, Hardcover by Lovink, Geert, ISBN 0745339352, ISBN-13 9780745339351, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK Melancholy has always been with us. Nowadays, though, it&;s a design problem&;its highs and lows coded into the social media platforms on which we spend so much of our lives. We click, we scroll; we swipe, we like. And after it all, we wonder where the time went, and what, other than a flat and empty feeling, we got for it. Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of our social media environment and what it&;s doing to us. Geert Lovink analyzes the problems of toxic viral memes, online addiction, and the lure of fake news. He shows how attempts to design sites to solve these problems have, in their studied efforts to be apolitical, been unable to generate either a serious critique or legitimate alternatives. But there is an answer: Lovink calls for us to acknowledge the engineered intimacy of these sites&;because boredom, he argues, is the first stage of overcoming &;platform nihilism,&; which can free us to organize to stop the data harvesting industries that run them.
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Book Title: Sad by Design : On Platform Nihilism
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Name: Sad by Design: on Platform Nihilism
Language: English
Publisher: Pluto Press
Item Height: 215 mm
Subject: Sociology, Science
Publication Year: 2019
Type: Textbook
Author: Geert Lovink
Item Width: 135 mm
Series: Digital Barricades
Format: Hardcover
