{"product_id":"sad-by-design-geert-lovink-9780745339344","title":"Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism","description":"Melancholy has always been with us. Nowadays, though, it's a design problem--its highs and lows coded into the social media platforms on which we spend so much of our lives. We click, we scroll; we swipe, we like. And after it all, we wonder where the time went, and what, other than a flat and empty feeling, we got for it. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSad by Design\u003c\/i\u003e offers a critical analysis of our social media environment and what it's doing to us. Geert Lovink analyzes the problems of toxic viral memes, online addiction, and the lure of fake news. He shows how attempts to design sites to solve these problems have, in their studied efforts to be apolitical, been unable to generate either a serious critique or legitimate alternatives. But there is an answer: Lovink calls for us to acknowledge the engineered intimacy of these sites--because boredom, he argues, is the first stage of overcoming \"platform nihilism,\" which can free us to organize to stop the data harvesting industries that run them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geert Lovink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0745339344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745339344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Geert Lovink","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43990306914559,"sku":"9780745339344","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_951d5271-628f-4417-b350-46d6702d0296.jpg?v=1683304038","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sad-by-design-geert-lovink-9780745339344","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}