Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives

524 Pages·2013·4.81 MB·English

by  Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch

Unlike Us Reader
Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives Editors: Geert Lovink and
Miriam Rasch Copy editing: Rachel Somers Miles
Design: Katja van Stiphout
Cover design: Giulia Ciliberto and Silvio Lorusso ePub development: Silvio
Lorusso
Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2013
ePub ISBN: 978-90-818575-5-0
Printed version ISBN: 978-90-818575-2-9
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Supported by: CREATE-IT applied research, Amsterdam University of Applied
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Thanks to Margreet Riphagen at INC, to all of the authors for their contributions,
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Previously published INC Readers:
The INC Reader series is derived from conference contributions and produced
by the Institute of Network Cultures. The readers are available in print and PDF
form.
INC Reader #7: Geert Lovink and Nathaniel Tkacz (eds), Critical Point of View:
A Wikipedia Reader, 2011.
INC Reader #6: Geert Lovink and Rachel Somers Miles (eds), Video Vortex
Reader II: Moving Images Beyond YouTube, 2011.
INC Reader #5: Scott McQuire, Meredith Martin and Sabine Niederer (eds),
Urban Screens Reader, 2009.
INC Reader #4: Geert Lovink and Sabine Niederer (eds), Video Vortex Reader:
Responses to YouTube, 2008.
INC Reader #3: Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter (eds), MyCreativity Reader: A
Critique of Creative Industries, 2007.
INC Reader #2: Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen and Matteo Pasquinelli (eds),
C’LICK ME: A Netporn Studies Reader, 2007.
INC Reader #1: Geert Lovink and Soenke Zehle (eds), Incommunicado Reader,
2005.
All INC Readers, and other publications like the Network Notebooks Series and
Theory on Demand, can be downloaded as a PDF for free from
www.networkcultures.org/publications.
Or check www.scribd.com/collections/3073695/INC-Readers for print on
demand, and www.issuu.com/instituteofnetworkcultures for online reading.
CONTENTS
Geert Lovink
A World Beyond Facebook: Introduction to the Unlike Us Reader
THEORY OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Bernard Stiegler
The Most Precious Good in the Era of Social Technologies
David M. Berry
Against Remediation
Ganaele Langlois
Social Media, or Towards a Political Economy of Psychic Life
Nathan Jurgenson and PJ Rey
The Fan Dance: How Privacy Thrives in an Age of Hyper-Publicity
Martin Warnke
Databases as Citadels in the Web 2.0
Andrea Miconi
Under the Skin of the Networks: How Concentration Affects Social Practices in Web 2.0 Environments
Yuk Hui and Harry Halpin
Collective Individuation: The Future of the Social Web
CRITICAL PLATFORM ANALYSIS
Korinna Patelis
Political Economy and Monopoly Abstractions: What Social Media Demand
Jenny Kennedy
Rhetorics of Sharing: Data, Imagination, and Desire
Mercedes Bunz
As You Like It: Critique in the Era of an Affirmative Discourse
Caroline Bassett
Silence, Delirium, Lies?
Ippolita and Tiziana Mancinelli
The Facebook Aquarium: Freedom in a Profile
PLATFORM CASE STUDIES
Mariann Hardey and David Beer
Talking About Escape
D.E. Wittkower
Boredom on Facebook
Leighton Evans
How to Build a Map for Nothing: Immaterial Labor and Location-Based Social Networking
Andrew McNicol
None of Your Business? Analyzing the Legitimacy and Effects of Gendering Social Spaces Through
System Design
Robert W. Gehl
‘Why I Left Facebook’: Stubbornly Refusing to not Exist even After Opting out of Mark Zuckerberg’s
Social Graph
ARTISTIC INTERVENTIONS
Simona Lodi
Illegal Art and Other Stories About Social Media
Alessandro Ludovico and Paolo Cirio
Face-to-Facebook, Smiling in the Eternal Party
Louis Doulas and Wyatt Niehaus
On Pleaselike.com and Facebook Bliss
Brad Troemel
Art After Social Media as a Rejection of Free Market Conventions
Tatiana Bazzichelli
Disruptive Business as Artistic Intervention
ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL MEDIA USES
Marc Stumpel
Facebook Resistance: Augmented Freedom
Pavlos Hatzopoulos and Nelli Kambouri
The Tactics of Occupation: Becoming Cockroach
Tiziana Terranova and Joan Donovan
Occupy Social Networks: The Paradoxes of Using Corporate Social Media in Networked Movements
ALTERNATIVES
Lonneke van der Velden
Meeting the Alternatives: Notes About Making Profiles and Joining Hackers
Sebastian Sevignani
Facebook vs. Diaspora: A Critical Study
Florencio Cabello, Marta G. Franco and Alexandra Haché
Towards a Free Federated Social Web: Lorea Takes the Networks!
Solon Barocas, Seda Gürses, Arvind Narayanan and Vincent Toubiana
Unlikely Outcomes? A Distributed Discussion on the Prospects and Promise of Decentralized Personal Data
Architectures
APPENDICES
Unlike Us Research Agenda
Unlike Us Conferences
Unlike Us #1 in Limassol
Unlike Us #2 in Amsterdam
Author Biographies