Geert Lovink is founder of the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Preparing for Uncommon Departures1. What is the Social in Social Media?2. After the Social Media Hype: Dealing with Information Overload3. A World Beyond Facebook: The Alternative of Unlike Us4. Hermes on the Hudson: Media Theory After Snowden5. Internet Revenue ModelsÑA Personal Account6. The MoneyLab Agenda: After Free Culture7. For Bitcoin to Live, Bitcoin Must Die8. Netcore in Uganda: The i-network Community9. Jonathan Franzen as Symptom: Internet Resentment10. Urbanizing as a Verb: The Map is not the Tech11. Expanded Updates: Fragments of Net Criticism12. Occupy and the Politics of Organized NetworksNotesSelect Bibliography

"For nearly thirty years, Geert Lovink has been the singular vanguard of net criticism. Zeroing in on what we are doing before we know that we are doing it, he poses the questions not that we should now ask but that we must ask next. Social Media Abyss is Lovink at his insightful, provocative, best." Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges "Geert Lovink has set his laptop up in the internet cafe teetering on the edge of the abyss. Staring deep into that vortex, and catching sight of its many shiny whirling surfaces, Lovink's writing always reminds us of the fundamental pleasure and necessity of saying 'No'." Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London

Geert Lovink is founder of the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Preparing for Uncommon Departures1. What is the Social in Social Media?2. After the Social Media Hype: Dealing with Information Overload3. A World Beyond Facebook: The Alternative of Unlike Us4. Hermes on the Hudson: Media Theory After Snowden5. Internet Revenue ModelsÑA Personal Account6. The MoneyLab Agenda: After Free Culture7. For Bitcoin to Live, Bitcoin Must Die8. Netcore in Uganda: The i-network Community9. Jonathan Franzen as Symptom: Internet Resentment10. Urbanizing as a Verb: The Map is not the Tech11. Expanded Updates: Fragments of Net Criticism12. Occupy and the Politics of Organized NetworksNotesSelect Bibliography

"For nearly thirty years, Geert Lovink has been the singular vanguard of net criticism. Zeroing in on what we are doing before we know that we are doing it, he poses the questions not that we should now ask but that we must ask next. Social Media Abyss is Lovink at his insightful, provocative, best." Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges "Geert Lovink has set his laptop up in the internet cafe teetering on the edge of the abyss. Staring deep into that vortex, and catching sight of its many shiny whirling surfaces, Lovink's writing always reminds us of the fundamental pleasure and necessity of saying 'No'." Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London

Geert Lovink is founder of the Institute of Network Cultures at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Professor of Media Theory at the European Graduate School.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Preparing for Uncommon Departures1. What is the Social in Social Media?2. After the Social Media Hype: Dealing with Information Overload3. A World Beyond Facebook: The Alternative of Unlike Us4. Hermes on the Hudson: Media Theory After Snowden5. Internet Revenue ModelsÑA Personal Account6. The MoneyLab Agenda: After Free Culture7. For Bitcoin to Live, Bitcoin Must Die8. Netcore in Uganda: The i-network Community9. Jonathan Franzen as Symptom: Internet Resentment10. Urbanizing as a Verb: The Map is not the Tech11. Expanded Updates: Fragments of Net Criticism12. Occupy and the Politics of Organized NetworksNotesSelect Bibliography

"For nearly thirty years, Geert Lovink has been the singular vanguard of net criticism. Zeroing in on what we are doing before we know that we are doing it, he poses the questions not that we should now ask but that we must ask next. Social Media Abyss is Lovink at his insightful, provocative, best." Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges "Geert Lovink has set his laptop up in the internet cafe teetering on the edge of the abyss. Staring deep into that vortex, and catching sight of its many shiny whirling surfaces, Lovink's writing always reminds us of the fundamental pleasure and necessity of saying 'No'." Matthew Fuller, Goldsmiths, University of London