Sad by design : on platform nihilism

Sad by design : on platform nihilism / Geert Lovink.

"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 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lovink, Geert (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Pluto Press, 2019.
Series:Digital barricades.
Subjects:
Social media > Psychological aspects.
Sadness > Social aspects.
Melancholy > Social aspects.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Melancholy > Social aspects
Sadness
Social media
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Society of the Social; 1. Overcoming the Disillusioned Internet; 2. Social Media as Ideology; 3. Distraction and Its Discontents; 4. Sad by Design; 5. Media Network Platform: Three Architectures; 6. From Registration to Extermination, On technological Violence; 7. Narcissus Confirmed: Technologies of the Minimal Selfie; 8. Mask Design: Aesthetics of the Faceless; 9. Memes as Strategy: European Origins and Debates; 10. Before Building the Avant-Garde of the Commons.

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