Platform Brutality

The internet has become an integral part of all human activities. Yet its toxic aspects have permeated our personal, social, and political lives, with people using it to attack others, normalise violence, spread fake news, and produce propaganda. Social media no longer distracts – it wounds. Technological violence is essentially remote, invisible, and indirect. ‘Platform Brutality’ offers critical analyses and proposes alternatives. Dutch media theorist Geert Lovink addresses topics ranging from radical data critique, smart phone mythologies, and social media loneliness to offline romanticism, dreaming in the computer age, and how to design a new balance between analogue and digital.