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

By: Keen, Andrew.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012Edition: 1st ed.Description: 246 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780312624989 (hardback); 9781429940962 (e-book).Subject(s): Internet -- Social aspects | Information society | Social mediaDDC classification: 302.23/1
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: Argues that social media is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing a new egalitarian and communal age. The paradox of life in the social media age is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom.
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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.

Argues that social media is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing a new egalitarian and communal age. The paradox of life in the social media age is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom.

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