Geert Lovink-Social Media Abyss: The Turkish Translation

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I am proud to announce the publication of my first book in Turkish. The original edition of Social Media Abyss appeared in May 2016 with Polity Press, simultaneous with the Italian translation (EGEA Bocconi), which was followed by the German edition (Transcript Verlag, 2017). Chinese and Spanish translations will come out later in 2018. The Turkish edition was published by Otonom Yayincilik in Istanbul. You can order Sosyal Medyanın Dipsiz Kuyusu here and here and here. I am going to do book presentations in Istanbul and Ankara late April 2018.

What’s Social Networking Today?

By Geert Lovink, November 3, 2024

Download as PDF (This is my contribution to From Net, City, World to Cloud, Market, Sea – Metaphors of the Internet, edited by Zentrum für Netzkunst (Tereza Havlíková, Julia Kochanek and Anneliese Ostertag). The book is published by Distanz Verlag in Berlin, more information here). Awareness about the the productive link between metaphors and computer [...]

The Missing Free Software in the Principles of Perma-Hybridity

By Giuseppe Aceto, August 25, 2024

Download as PDF Geert Lovink’s Principles of Perma-Hybridity is packed-full with concepts I want to explore to a deeper level despite already resonating with my understanding and experience. However, I felt alternatives to platforms were missing. Self-managed federated social media deserve a mention as a practical and functioning example of reaction to the algorithmic management [...]

Principles of Perma-Hybridity

By Geert Lovink, August 24, 2024

Download as PDF (written for the NoSchoolNevers publication The Internet of Dead Things) “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of monsters appear.” Antonio Gramsci “The real power of a neganthropic and anti-anthropic institution comes from its energetic [...]