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

By: Publication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 246 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780312624989 (hardback)
  • 0312624980 (hardback)
  • 9781429940962 (e-book)
  • 1429940964 (e-book)
  • 9781250031396
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23/1 23
LOC classification:
  • HM851 .K443 2012
Other classification:
  • BUS097000 | COM079000
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.
Summary: "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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Book Book NMC Library Stacks HM851 .K443 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001355592

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.

"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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