5. Video Vortex

13. Table of Contents Introduction: Capturing Web 2.0 Before its Disappearance Psychopathology of Information Overload Facebook, Anonymity and the Crisis of the Multiple Self Treatise on Comment Culture Disquisition on Internet Criticism Media Studies - Diagnostics of a Failed Merger Blogging after the Hype: Germany, France, Iraq Radio after Radio: From Pirate to Internet Experiments Online Video Aesthetics or the Art of Watching Databases Society of the Query: The Googlization of our Lives Organizing Networks in Culture and Politics Techno-Politics at Wikileaks

14. Facebook’s Global Hegemony

42. Research network, series of conferences, workshops, barcamps and publications launced in July 2011 Initiated by Geert Lovink (Amsterdam) and Korinna Patelis (Cyprus) Themes: 1. Political Economy: Understanding Social Media Monopolies 2. Beyond Moral Policing: Radical Social Media Critiques 3. Design Analysis of Social Media Software 4. Privacy/Regulation 5. Artistic Responses to Social Media 6. Platform Design: Alternatives in Social Media 7. Visiting the Belly of the Beast (Inside the Companies) 8. Visualizations and other Social Media Research Methods 9. Media Activism and the 'Facebook Revolution’ Unlike Us: Social Media Monopolies and their Alternatives