ISBN:
9780262536271
,
0262536277
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 130 Seiten
,
18 cm
Series Statement:
Untimely meditations 13
Series Statement:
Untimely meditations
Uniform Title:
Abfall
DDC:
302.231
Keywords:
Online social networks Social aspects
;
Online social networks Philosophy
;
Digital media Philosophy
;
Neue Medien
;
Neue Medien
Abstract:
"series of essay chapters (a number of which first saw publication in German in mainstream newspapers and magazines) addresses how Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and other forms of social media work (and that broader "by-product" of the militaristic ARPANET, the internet), what they do to and with the people who use them, and how they have changed and are continuing to change cultural reality:--
Description / Table of Contents:
The question of guilt : Trump and Zuckerberg -- Faust on Facebook -- Loss of privacy -- The fateful year 1984 -- Life as an archive -- The digital Madeleine -- The moral of the haiku -- The no-photo tag -- The dialectics of participation -- The death of the experts -- Shitstorm -- Nerd attack -- Communication utopias -- Why Facebook is rescuing us
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