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after Social Media</p>
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Lovink and Ned Rossiter</p>
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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.</p>
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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.</p>
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