Net Delusion The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

Name: Net Delusion The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
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ISBN: 9781610391061

ISBN-10: 1610391063

ISBN-13: 9781610391061

Edition: 2011

Authors: Evgeny Morozov

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“The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the democratizing power of the Internet, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and repressive as ever. In fact, authoritarian governments are effectively using the Internet to suppress free speech, hone their surveillance techniques, disseminate cutting-edge propaganda, and pacify their populations with digital entertainment. Could the recent Western obsession with promoting democracy by digital means backfire? In this spirited book, journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov shows that by falling for the supposedly democratizing nature of…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



The Google Doctrine



Texting Like It's 1989



Orwell's Favorite Lolcat



Censors and Sensibilities



Hugo Chavez Would Like to Welcome You to the Spinternet



Why the KGB Wants You to Join Facebook



Why Kierkegaard Hates Slacktivism



Open Networks, Narrow Minds: Cultural Contradictions of Internet Freedom



Internet Freedoms and Their Consequences



Making History (More Than a Browser Menu)



The Wicked Fix


Afterword to the Paperback Edition


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Index


About the Author