1st Edition
The Death of Web 2.0 Ethics, Connectivity and Recognition in the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Whatever happened to Web 2.0?
PART I: Connectivity and the spirit of conviviality
Chapter One
A communitarian disquisition on digital literacy
Chapter Two
Psychosocial dimensions of recognition in connectivity ethics
Chapter Three
Connectivity, creativity and other Web 2.0 myths
PART II: Recognition, self-realisation and the principle of mutuality
Chapter Four
Towards a recognition theory for social media interaction
Chapter Five
Towards a deep psychology of recognition and mutuality in always-on contexts
Chapter Six
Selfobjects and intersubjective mutuality in the contemporary media ecosystem
Chapter Seven
Social media as a false-self system
Conclusion: What would an ethics of connectivity look like? Some final notes of the death of Web 2.0
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Greg Singh is Associate Professor in Media and Communications and Programme Director of Digital Media at the University of Stirling, UK. His previous books include Film After Jung: Post-Jungian Approaches to Film Theory and Feeling Film: Affect and Authenticity in Popular Cinema (both Routledge), and he has also published on topics including celebrity, YouTube and lifestyle television. Greg is Co-Director of the RSE Life in Data Research Network and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
"Remember Web 2.0? Its shiny promises of participation, creativity and empowerment seem a very long time ago, as social media curdle into narcissism, data mining and election fraud. Greg Singh surveys the rubble of the Web 2.0 moment, and builds a powerful argument about the ethics of connection, recognition, and twenty-first-century communication."— Graham Meikle, Professor of Communication and Digital Media, University of Westminster, UK
