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001 2012009434
003 DLC
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008 120316s2012 nyu 000 0 eng
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020 $a9780312624989 (hardback)
020 $a9781429940962 (e-book)
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050 00 $aHM851$b.K443 2012
082 00 $a302.23/1$223
084 $aBUS097000$aCOM079000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aKeen, Andrew.
245 10 $aDigital vertigo :$bhow today's online social revolution is dividing, diminishing, and disorienting us /$cAndrew Keen.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2012.
263 $a1205
300 $ap. cm.
520 $a""Digital Vertigo provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution." --Larry Downes, author of The Killer App In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be. "--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"In Digital Vertigo, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of "social" companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 7 $aBUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Workplace Culture.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aCOMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General.$2bisacsh
650 0 $aInternet$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aInformation society.
650 0 $aSocial media.
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