Zero Comments Blogging and Critical Internet Culture

Name: Zero Comments Blogging and Critical Internet Culture
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ISBN: 9780415973151

ISBN-10: 0415973155

ISBN-13: 9780415973151

Edition: 2007

Authors: Geert Lovink

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In Zero Comments , internationally renowned media theorist and 'net critic' Geert Lovink upgrades worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber and My First Recession , Lovink develops a 'general theory of blogging.' Unlike most critiques of blogging, Lovink is not focusing here on the dynamics between bloggers and the mainstream news media, but rather unpacking the ways that blogs exhibit a 'nihilist impulse' to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs, Lovink argues, are bringing about the decay of traditional…

Book details

List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 8/9/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 340
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Geert Lovink is an independent media theorist and net critic. He is the founder of nettime mailing lists, a member of Adilkno, and a cofounder of the online community server Digital City.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Pride and Glory of Web 2.0



Blogging, the Nihilist Impulse



The Cool Obscure: Crisis of New Media Arts



Whereabouts of German Media Theory



Blogging and Building: The Netherlands after Digitization



Indifference of the Networked Presence: On Internet Time



Revisiting Sarai: Five Years of New Media Culture in India



ICT after Development: The Incommunicado Agenda



Updating Tactical Media: Strategies for Media Activism



Axioms of Free Cooperation: Contesting Online Collaboration



Theses on Distributed Aesthetics



Introducing Organized Networks: The Quest for Sustainable Concepts


Notes


Bibliography


Index