The people's platform: taking back power and culture in the digital age
Ouvrages documentaires canadiens, Auteurs canadiens (documentaires), Sciences et technologies, Informatique et Internet
Audio avec voix humaine, Braille avec transcription humaine
Résumé
The Internet has been hailed as a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, the author argues that for all that we "tweet"… and "like" and "share," the Internet in fact reflects and amplifies real-world inequities at least as much as it ameliorates them. Online, just as off-line, attention and influence largely accrue to those who already have plenty of both. What we have seen in the virtual world so far has been not a revolution but merely a rearrangement. Although Silicon Valley tycoons have eclipsed Hollywood moguls, a handful of giants like Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook still dominate our lives. The new world order looks suspiciously just like the old one. 2014.