Sad by Design: On Platform Nihilism

by Geert Lovink

Book Overview

Melancholy has always been with us. Nowadays, though, it's a design problem--its highs and lows coded into the social media platforms on which we spend so much of our lives. We click, we scroll; we swipe, we like. And after it all, we wonder where the time went, and what, other than a flat and empty feeling, we got for it.
Sad by Design offers a critical analysis of our social media environment and what it's doing to us. Geert Lovink analyzes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745339344
• ISBN13: 9780745339344
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"