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The Boy Kings by Katherine Losse

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Jul 10, 12

bookshelves: 2012
Read from July 05 to 10, 2012



More like 2.5 stars. I really was hoping for a nuanced examination of Facebook and in particular Mark Zuckerberg. Losse had the ability to write so much more. Perhaps she was restrained by contracts she had signed, but this book largely fails. She attempts to write a anthropological and sociological exposé on Facebook, using her Johns Hopkins degree(which she never lets you forget she has) but as an English MA, she is ill-equipped to do a real analysis. Instead we get stories, with ill placed theories that disrupt the flow of her writing. And she uses many theories in the wrong context. Plus she wants you to feel bad for her that as a Customer Service Rep she only made $20 an hour. Booho. What Losse fails to recognize is that she is part of the imperialistic, white washed, upper middle class, well-educated, american apparel wearing, coachella attending, daft punk listening group of workers at Facebook. She was not an outsider. And now I suspect she is fairly well off after selling her facebook stocks before the IPO.

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