Waste - A New Media Primer Simanowski Roberto Professor City University of Hong KongPaperback
Waste - A New Media Primer Simanowski Roberto Professor City University of Hong KongPaperback On Facebook and fake news, selfies and self-consciousness, selling our souls to the Internet, and other…
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Waste - A New Media Primer Simanowski Roberto Professor City University of Hong KongPaperback
On Facebook and fake news, selfies and self-consciousness, selling our souls to the Internet, and other aspects of the digital revolution.With these engaging and provocative essays, Roberto Simanowski considers what new media has done to us. Why do we escape from living and loving the present into capturing, sharing and liking it? Why is digital privacy being eroded and why does society seem not to care?
For example, on the question of Facebook's responsibility for the election of Donald Trump, he argues that the problem is not the "fake news" but the creation of conditions that make people susceptible to fake news. And how did we arrive at a selfie society without self-consciousness?Simanowski, who has been studying the Internet and social media since the 1990s, goes deeper than the conventional wisdom. The hallmark of the Internet is its instantaneousness, but,