Networks Without a Cause, A Critique of Social Media is one of the latest books to make its way to my bookshelf. By clicking that link above you can see the author, Geert Lovink, talk about a number of the key themes in the book.
For me, the ideas around ‘weak-links’ and their exploitation are most interesting, but also rather enjoy the general disregard for and dissection of the all too pervasive hype around social media/networks. (Think that possibly takes the prize for worst sentence ever constructed on the vis com blog, but you know what I mean).
Neil, I’d be keen to have a read the next time you’re not using it or when you’ve read it and don’t need it or something. (That is also a very poor sentence, hopefully you know what I mean)
cool – will lend it out when i’ve finished skim-reading and misinterpreting it.
Thanks for the heads up on this one Neil. Got it last week and so far it’s really interesting, Certainly given me some extra thinking for self-neg.