Sad by Design – On Platform Nihilism : On Platform Nihilism
by
Geert Lovink
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Digital Barricades
ISBN-10
0745339352
ISBN-13
9780745339351
Publisher
Pluto Press
Imprint
Pluto Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 20th, 2019
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
394 grams
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We live in a time of engineered intimacy, toxic memes and online addiction. Can we ever break free?
Sadness is now a design problem. The highs and lows of melancholy are coded into social media platforms. After all the clicking, browsing, swiping and liking, all we are left with is the flat and empty aftermath of time lost to the app. Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of the growing social media controversies such as fake news, toxic viral memes and online addiction. The failed search for a grand design has resulted in depoliticised internet studies unable to generate either radical critique or a search for alternatives. Geert Lovink calls for us to embrace the engineered intimacy of social media, messenger apps and selfies, because boredom is the first stage of overcoming 'platform nihilism'. Then, after the haze, we can organise to disrupt the data extraction industries at their core.
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