Zero Comments

Author: Geert Lovink
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0415973163

Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture

In Zero Comments, internationally renowned media theorist and 'net critic' Geert LovinkArevitalizes worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites. Get Zero Comments computer books for free.
In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential Dark Fiber and My First Recession, Lovink develops a 'general theory of blogging.'AHe unpacks the ways that blogs exhibit a 'nihilist impulse' to empty out established meaning structures. Blogs, Lovink argues, are bringing about the decay of traditional broadcast media, and they are driven by an in-crowd dynamic in which social ranking is a primary concern. The lowest rung of the new Internet hierarchy are those bl Check Zero Comments our best computer books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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