[Air-L] Distraction and its Discontents--Essay by Geert Lovink

[Geert Lovink]

 ---Distraction and its Discontents---
Ebbs and flows in social media sensibility
By Geert Lovink

http://networkcultures.org/geert/2018/03/27/distraction/ <http://networkcultures.org/geert/2018/03/27/distraction/> (full version)
https://www.eurozine.com/distraction-and-its-discontents/ <https://www.eurozine.com/distraction-and-its-discontents/> (short version)
German translation of the full version in the new edition of Lettre International
Spanish translation here: https://andoenpando.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/https-andoenpando-wordpress-com-2018-04-01-geert-lovink-la-distraccion-y-sus-descontentos-altos-y-bajos-en-la-sensibilidad-de-las-redes-sociales/ <https://andoenpando.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/https-andoenpando-wordpress-com-2018-04-01-geert-lovink-la-distraccion-y-sus-descontentos-altos-y-bajos-en-la-sensibilidad-de-las-redes-sociales/>

Disillusion with social media only stimulates the search for ever more refined techniques of manipulation. Detoxing won’t help: it is collective action, not will power, that can free us from the permanent state of distraction. More later on the strategies of #deletefacebook. Geert