In the Facebook Aquarium

✍ Scribed by Ippolita

• Book ID: 109740376
• Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 119 B
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9789492302007

✦ Synopsis

In their new work the research collective Ippolita provides a critical investigation of the inner workings of Facebook as a model for all commercial social networks. Facebook is an extraordinary platform that can generate large profit from the daily activities of its users. Facebook may appear to be a form of free entertainment and self-promotion but in reality its users are working for the development of a new type of market where they trade relationships. By critically examining the theories of Californian right-libertarians, Ippolita shows the thread connecting Facebook to the European Pirate Parties, WikiLeaks and beyond.