Zero Comments: Blogging and Critical Internet Culture

摘要

If the internet were a city, Dutch media theorist Geert Lovink would be the Baedeker of its bohemian quarter. Zero Comments represents his fourth book-length tour of the net's intellectual hubs since 2003. Like its predecessors, it delivers its readers into the digital salons of the blogosphere and the many online networks in which coders come together to make everything from software to music. It also surveys regions of heady offline debate-contemporary German media theory, for instance, and transatlantic colloquies on the role of the aesthetic in organizing networked labor. Though the book never attempts to sustain a single argument across its pages, it makes an excellent introduction to some of the most current debates within and about internet culture.