Platform Socialism - How to Reclaim Our Digital Future From Big Tech

'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform CapitalismWhoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom.Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these companies have developed sophisticated new techniques for extracting wealth from their users.James Muldoon shows how grassroots communities and transnational social movements can take back control from Big Tech. He reframes the technology debate and proposes a host of new ideas, from the local to the international, for how we can reclaim the emancipatory possibilities of digital platforms. Drawing on sources from forgotten histories to contemporary prototypes, he proposes an alternative system and charts a roadmap for how we can get there.

Product details

• Authors: James Muldoon, James (University of Exeter) Muldoon
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780745346953
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4695-3
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Media Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / E-Commerce / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Censorship, Political activism, Digital lifestyle, Social issues & processes, Political Economy, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Social and ethical issues, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Digital or internet economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Privacy & Surveillance, Political activism / Political engagement