Index

Acknowledgements VI
Introduction: Capturing Web 2.0 Before its Disappearance 1
1 Psychopathology of Information Overload 24
2 Facebook, Anonymity and the Crisis of the Multiple Self 38
3 Treatise on Comment Culture 50
4 Disquisition on Internet Criticism 63
5 Media Studies - Diagnostics of a Failed Merger 76
6 Blogging after the Hype: Germany, France, Iraq 95
7 Radio after Radio: From Pirate to Internet Experiments 122
8 Online Video Aesthetics or the Art of Watching Databases 134
9 Society of the Query: The Googlization of our Lives 146
10 Organizing Networks in Culture and Politics 158
11 Techno-Politics at Wikileaks 176
Notes 187
Select Bibliography 213