{"id":27,"date":"2012-09-27T19:43:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T02:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/?p=27"},"modified":"2012-09-27T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T02:43:34","slug":"digital-vertigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/2012\/09\/27\/digital-vertigo\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Vertigo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Keen is the author of <em>Digital Vertigo: How Today\u2019s Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing and Disorienting Us<\/em>, a book where like the title, he talks about how online social networks are breaking up society, which today is not a very original argument. He believes people do not really live outside of social networks, but rather that people do everything on these online sites.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0through services like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. Rather than virtual or second life, social media is actually becoming life itself\u2014the central and increasingly transparent stage of human existence, what silicon valley venture capitalists are now calling an \u201cinternet of people\u201d As the fictionalized version of Facebook president Sean Parker\u2014played with such panache by Justin Timberlake\u2014predicted in the 2010 Oscar nominated movie\u00a0<em>The Social Network<\/em>: \u201cWe lived in farms, then we lived in cities, and now we\u2019re gonna live on the Internet!\u201d Social media is, thus, like home<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don\u2019t agree with Keen\u2019s argument because although it may seem from a quick glance that people do \u201clive\u201d on the internet, I think its just another medium of connecting and socializing. People can be as involved or connected as they wish, and some people are definitely more online than other and it does seem that some people actually do live online, but at the end of the day, when people aren\u2019t physically together, the internet and sites like Facebook begin to bridge the physical gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Keen is the author of Digital Vertigo: How Today\u2019s Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing and Disorienting Us, a book where like the title, he talks about how online social networks are breaking up society, which today is not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/2012\/09\/27\/digital-vertigo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":3,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"vobidi","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/author\/vobidi\/"},"qubely_comment":3,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/category\/uncategorized\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Andrew Keen is the author of Digital Vertigo: How Today\u2019s Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing and Disorienting Us, a book where like the title, he talks about how online social networks are breaking up society, which today is not &hellip; Continue reading &rarr;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/vobidi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}