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100 1 _aKeen, Andrew.
245 1 0 _aDigital vertigo :
_bhow today's online social revolution is dividing, diminishing, and disorienting us /
_cAndrew Keen.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bSt. Martin's Press,
_c2012.
300 _a246 p. ;
_c22 cm.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 _a"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.
650 0 _aInternet
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aInformation society.
650 0 _aSocial media.
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