[ICTs-and-Society] Out now: Unlike Us Reader: Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Download or order your copy!

[Sebastian Sevignani]

may be of interest for some of you...

Best wishes,
Sebastian.

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Geert Lovink and Miriam Rasch (eds), Unlike Us Reader: Social Media 
Monopolies and Their Alternatives, Amsterdam: Institute of Network 
Cultures, 2013. ISBN: 978-90-818575-2-9, paperback, 384 pages.

Now freely downloadable as pdf on:
http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/portal/publication/unlike-us-reader-social-media-monopolies-and-their-alternatives

To order a free print copy of the reader, visit 
http://networkcultures.org/publications

Check the book trailer here and feel free to share! 
https://vimeo.com/59997671

The Unlike Us Reader offers a critical examination of social media, 
bringing together theoretical essays, personal discussions, and artistic 
manifestos. How can we understand the social media we use everyday, or 
consciously choose not to use? We know very well that monopolies control 
social media, but what are the alternatives? While Facebook continues to 
increase its user population and combines loose privacy restrictions 
with control over data, many researchers, programmers, and activists 
turn towards designing a decentralized future. Through understanding the 
big networks from within, be it by philosophy or art, new perspectives 
emerge.

Unlike Us is a research network of artists, designers, scholars, 
activists, and programmers, with the aim to combine a critique of the 
dominant social media platforms with work on ?alternatives in social 
media?, through workshops, conferences, online dialogues, and 
publications. Everyone is invited to be a part of the public discussion 
on how we want to shape the network architectures and the future of 
social networks we are using so intensely.

Contributors: Solon Barocas, Caroline Bassett, Tatiana Bazzichelli, 
David Beer, David M. Berry, Mercedes Bunz, Florencio Cabello, Paolo 
Cirio, Joan Donovan, Louis Doulas, Leighton Evans, Marta G. Franco, 
Robert W. Gehl, Seda Gürses, Alexandra Haché, Harry Halpin, Mariann 
Hardey, Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Yuk Hui, Ippolita, Nathan Jurgenson, Nelli 
Kambouri, Jenny Kennedy, Ganaele Langlois, Simona Lodi, Alessandro 
Ludovico, Tiziana Mancinelli, Andrew McNicol, Andrea Miconi, Arvind 
Narayanan, Wyatt Niehaus, Korinna Patelis, PJ Rey, Sebastian Sevignani, 
Bernard Stiegler, Marc Stumpel, Tiziana Terranova, Vincent Toubiana, 
Brad Troemel, Lonneke van der Velden, Martin Warnke and D.E. Wittkower.

Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2013
ISBN 978-90-818575-2-9



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Miriam Rasch, MA
Institute of Network Cultures
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences | HvA
room 04A07
Rhijnspoorplein 1
NL-1091 GC Amsterdam
t: +31 20 5951865
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miriam at networkcultures.org
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