Facebook Society - Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves

Facebook claims that it is building a "global community." Whether this sounds utopian, dystopian, or simply self-promotional, there is no denying that social-media platforms have altered social interaction, political life, and outlooks on the world, even for people who do not regularly use them. In this book, Roberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society - and its insidious consequences for our concept of the self.

List of contents

Preface
1. Stranger Friends
2. Automatic Autobiography
3. Digital Nation
Afterword
Epilogue to the English Edition
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Roberto Simanowski (Prof. Dr. phil.) lehrt Medienwissenschaft an der Universität Basel. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Theorie, Geschichte, Ästhetik und Soziologie digitaler Medien, Intermedialität, Narrativität sowie Interkulturalität.

Summary

Roberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society—and its insidious consequences for our concept of the self. Presenting a creative, philosophically informed perspective that speaks to a shared reality, Facebook Society asks us to come to terms with the networked world.

Additional text

Very readable book, I am sure that you will find it very captivating and absolutely informative. I just can tell you that I read it in a few hours. Highly recommended.

Report

Facebook Society is a wonderfully rich and deeply thought extended essay on a symptomatic social medium of our day. With his focus on autobiography, friendship, memory, and narrative Simanowski outlines ways in which digital media have the power to change human perception and social relations. A broad historical, literary, and critical perspective on social media such as Simanowski's is very much needed both in the humanities and in the social sciences. Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University

Product details

• Authors: Susan H. Gillespie, Roberto Simanowski, Roberto (

  Roberto Simanowski Simanowski, Roberto/ Gillespie Simanowski, Simanowski Roberto

• Assisted by: Susan H. Gillespie (Translation), Gillespie Susan H. (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9780231182720
• ISBN: 978-0-231-18272-0
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Media Studies, History of Ideas, Social Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Western philosophy from c 1800, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Ethical & social aspects of IT, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects