Distraction and its discontents: ebbs and flows in social media sensibility

Geert Lovink

Distraction and its discontents: ebbs and flows in social media sensibility

Geert Lovink

Network Cultures (INC)

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Disillusion with social media only stimulates the search for ever more refined techniques of manipulation. Detoxing won’t help, writes Geert Lovink: it is collective action, not will power, that can free us from the permanent state of distraction.

Original language	English
Publisher	Eurozine
Media of output	Online
Publication status	Published - 28 Mar 2018

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