The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

By Taylor, Astra

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9780805093568 9780805095456
Publisher
Metropolitan: Holt


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Starred Review on March 15, 2014  |  Social Sciences

The Internet is often lauded as an open, democratic marketplace of ideas and goods in which anyone can thrive. In her sweeping critique, documentary filmmaker Taylor (Zizek!) challenges this notion, arguing that networked technology has allowed for greater concentration of power and has reduced transparency. Her well-researched, unsettling, and occasionally downright harrowing book explores the consolidation of popularity; the stubborn digital divide; copyright and piracy; and the pe...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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