Unlike Us Reader Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives [electronic resource].

Institute of Network Cultures 2013

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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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Geert Lovink
Miriam Rasch
Rachel Somers Miles
Katja van Stiphout
Silvio Lorusso
Giulia Ciliberto
Caroline Bassett
David Beer
David M. Berry
Mercedes Bunz
Florencio Cabello
Paolo Cirio
Joan Donovan
Louis Doulas
Leighton Evans
Marta G. Franco
Robert W. Gehl
Seda Gürses
Alexandra Haché
Harry Halpin
Mariann Hardey
Pavlos Hatzopoulos
Yuk Hui
Ippolita
Nathan Jurgenson
Nelli Kambouri
Jenny Kennedy
Ganaele Langlois
Simona Lodi
Alessandro Ludovico
Tiziana Mancinelli
Andrew McNicol
Andrea Miconi
Arvind Narayanan
Wyatt Niehaus
Korinna Patelis
PJ Rey
Sebastian Sevignani
Bernard Stiegler
Marc Stumpel
Tiziana Terranova
Vincent Toubiana
Brad Troemel
Lonneke van der Velden
Martin Warnke
D.E. Wittkower