[spectre] Geert Lovink - Networks Without a Cause

[Share Festival]

06/07/2012
/Geert Lovink presents his lastest book Networks Without a Cause/
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*Geert Lovink* presents his latest book */Networks Without a Cause/*
Face to face with the author
*13th June - 9 PM
Circolo dei Lettori*

*On 13th June at 9 PM, at the Circolo dei Lettori in Turin,* Geert 
Lovink will be presenting his latest book Networks Without a Cause. 
Translated into Italian as Ossessioni collettive and published by Egea, 
the Bocconi University press, the new Italian release by the Dutch 
thinker and founder/director of the Institute of Network Cultures will 
be introduced by *Vito Campanelli*, followed by a discussion with 
*Simona Lodi *and* Luca Barbeni* within the framework of Share Festival 
2012.

In its critique of social media, the book takes as its starting point 
the fact that the vast majority of Facebook users are too caught up in a 
frenzy of 'friending', 'liking' and 'commenting' to pause to grasp the 
consequences of our info-saturated lives.
Geert Lovink asks just what is it that compels us, as though it were a 
duty, to engage so diligently every day with social networks such as 
Twitter, Flickr and FourSquare. The book examines the collective 
obsession with online identity and image, connecting it with the 
fragmentation and information overload endemic to online culture. Nobody 
is spared as Lovink provides a path-breaking critical analysis of search 
engines, online video, blogging, digital radio, media activism and the 
Wikileaks saga.
Probing but never pessimistic, Lovink offers a critique of the political 
structures and conceptual powers embedded in the technologies that shape 
our daily lives.

On Thursday, 14th June, Geert Lovink will be in Milan for a Meet the 
Media Guru event to be held at the Mediateca Santa Teresa at 7:30 PM, 
and on 16th June he will be in Bologna for an encounter organized by the 
publisher Egea at the Centro Sociale TPO at 6 PM.

We would like to thank all the sponsors supporting this event, in 
particular the Dutch Embassy for having made it possible to organize the 
event in three different Italian cities.

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