{"product_id":"digital-vertigo-9781250031396","title":"Digital Vertigo","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDigital Vertigo\u003c\/i\u003e provides an articulate, measured, contrarian voice against a sea of hype about social media. As an avowed technology optimist, I'm grateful for Keen who makes me stop and think before committing myself fully to the social revolution. --Larry Downes, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Killer App\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDigital Vertigo\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrew Keen presents today's social media revolution as the most wrenching cultural transformation since the Industrial Revolution. Fusing a fast-paced historical narrative with front-line stories from today's online networking revolution and critiques of social companies like Groupon, Zynga and LinkedIn, Keen argues that the social media transformation is weakening, disorienting and dividing us rather than establishing the dawn of a new egalitarian and communal age. The tragic paradox of life in the social media age, Keen says, is the incompatibility between our internet longings for community and friendship and our equally powerful desire for online individual freedom. By exposing the shallow core of social networks like Facebook, Andrew Keen shows us that the more electronically connected we become, the lonelier and less powerful we seem to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250031396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Andrew Keen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40039940325557,"sku":"9781250031396","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1d532862-a171-4266-a79a-331c37e3d7bb.jpg?v=1621339941","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/digital-vertigo-9781250031396","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}