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For all the wonders the Internet brings us, it is dominated by an economics of monopoly, extraction, and surveillance. Ordinary users retain little control over their personal data, and the digital workplace is creeping into every corner of workers’ lives. Online platforms often exploit and exacerbate existing inequalities in society, even while pr
... See moreAnand Giridharadas • Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
When pressed, all of them would admit that in the race between the omnivorous web and their burgeoning technology, the web was winning
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
For better and for worse, shifts in journalism, education, and communications have helped create a population that is more skeptical, more engaged, less credulous, and less trusting.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
C H A P T E R 6 World Wide Computer
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
technology, religion,
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Philip E. Agre
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
Tips & Tricks
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
Book
Digital Sabbath: the Partially Offline Society