Networks without a cause : a critique of social media /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lovink, Geert
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Polity Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Online social networks > Sociological aspects. Online social networks > Case studies.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: capturing Web 2.0 before its disappearance
Psychopathology of information overload
Facebook, anonymity, and the crisis of the multiple self
Treatise on comment culture
Disquisition on Internet criticism
Media studies: diagnostics of a failed merger
Blogging after the hype: Germany, France, Iraq
Radio after radio: from pirate to Internet experiments
Online video aesthetics or the art of watching databases
Society of the query: the Googlization of our lives
Organizing networks in culture and politics
Techno-politics at WikiLeaks.