Geert Lovink, "Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism" (Pluto Press, 2019)
New Books in Psychology
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The Role of Class Thinking in the Digital Economy, Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is an unprecedented influential person that defines the lives and modes of communication from nearly three billion people on this planet. In almost every speech, he comes back to that, because he believes even that these close to three billion users in themselves are a community. This is really kind of almost naive idea of harmonious life in which we just have encounters and exchanges with friends and family, right? That's what Mark Zuckerberg claims that he is digitizing and then facilitating on his platform. And so it has a dynamic in itself, it has values and it has a certain unity, and it's kept together.
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