Roberto Simanowski takes Facebook as a starting point to investigate our social-media society-and its insidious consequences for our concept of the self. Presenting a creative, philosophically informed perspective that speaks to a shared reality, Facebook Society asks us to come to terms with the networked world.

Roberto Simanowski is a German scholar of digital media and culture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. His books include Data Love: The Seduction and Betra ...