Had high hopes for this book . The store where I bought it presented it as a cultural anthropology of the "platform" architecture of the modern internet. The actual analysis is somewhat lacking, and full of jargon that barely hangs together. Kind of like the word vomit you get when you ask someone with an American <<[whatever] studies>> PhD to describe their work.

I really wish I could love this book and recommend it to my friends, because it does contain some really interesting and novel thoughts on how specifically the move to a client-server model of internet services has reshaped the self-concept in the developed world. But this book should have been an essay.