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

Name: People's Platform Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age
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ISBN: 9780805093568

ISBN-10: 0805093567

ISBN-13: 9780805093568

Edition: 2013

Authors: Astra Taylor

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From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our ageThe Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force, 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 People's Platformargues 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 so far, Astra Taylor says,…

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Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 3/19/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English