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Unlike Us Reader. Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives

Editor(s): Lovink, GeertRasch, Miriam

Abstract

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.

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Lovink, Geert; Rasch, Miriam(Hg.): Unlike Us Reader. Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures 2013. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19288.
@BOOK{Lovink2013,
 title = {Unlike Us Reader. Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives},
 year = 2013,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19288}",
 editor = {Lovink, Geert and Rasch, Miriam},
 volume = 8,
 address = {Amsterdam},
 series = {INC Readers},
 publisher = {Institute of Network Cultures},
 isbn = {978-90-818575-2-9},
}
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