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<p><b>Organization after Social Media</b><br>
Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter<br>
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<i>Exploring the politics of networks through and beyond social
media</i><br>
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Organized networks are an alternative to the social media logic of
weak links and their secretive economy of data mining. They put an
end to freestyle friends, seeking forms of empowerment beyond the
brief moment of joyful networking. This speculative manual calls
for nothing less than social technologies based on enduring time.
Analyzing contemporary practices of organization through networks
as new institutional forms, organized networks provide an
alternative to political parties, trade unions, NGOs, and
traditional social movements. Dominant social media deliver
remarkably little to advance decision-making within digital
communication infrastructures. The world cries for action, not
likes. <br>
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<i>Organization after Social Media</i> explores a range of social
settings from arts and design, cultural politics, visual culture
and creative industries, disorientated education and the crisis of
pedagogy to media theory and activism. Lovink and Rossiter devise
strategies of commitment to help claw ourselves out of the toxic
morass of platform suffocation.<br>
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Bio:<br>
Geert Lovink is a media activist and theorist, internet critic and
author of Uncanny Networks (2001), Dark Fiber (2002), My First
Recession (2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause
(2012) and Social Media Abyss (2016). He is the founder of the
Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of
Applied Sciences (HvA) and teaches at the European Graduate School
in Saas Fee/Malta. <br>
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Ned Rossiter is Professor of Communication in the Institute for
Culture and Society with a joint appointment in the School of
Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University. He
is the author of Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative
Labour, New Institutions (2006) and Software, Infrastructure,
Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (2016). <br>
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PDF available freely online:
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Ordering Information: Available direct from Minor Compositions now
for the special price of £10.<br>
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Official release to the book trade in Winter 2018. <br>
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182 pages, 5.5 x 8.5<br>
UK: £16 / US: $24<br>
ISBN 978-1-57027-338-4<br>
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Released by Minor Compositions, Colchester / Brooklyn / Port
Watson<br>
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations
drawing from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.<br>
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Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia<br>
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Minor Compositions is a series of interventions
& provocations drawing from autonomous politics,
avant-garde aesthetics, and the
revolutions of everyday life.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.minorcompositions.info">http://www.minorcompositions.info</a>
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