Book Review:

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Rivera, Javier de

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	908062
Doc. No	:	LA3165263b
Title & Author	:	Book Review:. Networks Without a Cause by Geert Lovink [Article]\ Rivera, Javier de
Date	:	2013
Title of Periodical	:	UCLA
Abstract	:	<em>Networks Without a Cause </em>offers a provocative and critical review of today's well established social media. The book departs from the recognition that new media has reached a second phase of maturation, after Wikileaks and the Arab Spring demonstrated the politically crucial dimension of the Internet. This political shift is accompanied by growing criticism over corporations such as Facebook or Google, and a general concern about Net Neutrality and regulation of the Internet. In the words of the author, “the friction-free days of a 'multi-stakeholder' governance [of the Internet] are now over,” (P. 1) and what comes next is a confusing struggle for the definition of the technological foundations of our society.