Organization after Social Media

*Organization after Social Media*
Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter

Exploring the politics of networks through and beyond social media

Organized 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.

Organization after Social Media 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.


Bio:
Geert Lovink is a media activist and theorist, internet critic and 
author of Uncanny Networks (2001), Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession 
(2003), Zero Comments (2007), Networks Without a Cause (2012) and Social 
Media Abyss (2016). He is the founder of the Institute of Network 
Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) and 
teaches at the European Graduate School in Saas Fee/Malta.

Ned Rossiter is Professor of Communication in the Institute for Culture 
and Society with a joint appointment in the School of Humanities and 
Communication Arts, Western Sydney University. He is the author of 
Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions 
(2006) and Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical 
Nightmares (2016).

PDF available freely online: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=857

Released by Minor Compositions, Colchester / Brooklyn / Port Watson
Minor Compositions is a series of interventions & provocations drawing 
from autonomous politics, avant-garde aesthetics, and the revolutions of 
everyday life.

Minor Compositions is an imprint of Autonomedia
www.minorcompositions.info | [email protected]


=====
General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html