With the vast majority of Facebook users caught in a frenzy of
'friending', 'liking' and 'commenting', at what point do we pause
to grasp the consequences of our info-saturated lives? What compels
us to engage so diligently with social networking systems?
"Networks Without a Cause" examines our collective obsession with
identity and self-management coupled with the fragmentation and
information overload endemic to contemporary online culture.With a
dearth of theory on the social and cultural ramifications of hugely
popular online services, Lovink provides a path-breaking critical
analysis of our over-hyped, networked world with case studies on
search engines, online video, blogging, digital radio, media
activism and the Wikileaks saga. This book offers a powerful
message to media practitioners and theorists: let us collectively
unleash our critical capacities to influence technology design and
workspaces, otherwise we will disappear into the cloud. Probing but
never pessimistic, Lovink draws from his long history in media
research to offer a critique of the political structures and
conceptual powers embedded in the technologies that shape our daily
lives.
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