Gentrification of the Internet - How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom

"This is a powerful model of engaged, twenty-first century social criticism. Writing in the tradition of Jane Jacobs, Margaret Mead, and Rebecca Solnit, Jessa Lingel is a formidable new critical voice in America."—Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of Antisocial Media and The Googlization of Everything

"The Gentrification of the Internet deftly dismantles romanticized notions of Big Tech, helping readers understand the internet as a site of increasing isolation, commodification, surveillance, and displacement. This readable and accessible book will definitely be required reading for all my courses." ––Clemencia Rodríguez, Professor of Media Studies, Temple University

"Jessa Lingel’s book persuasively demonstrates that gentrification and its consequences in terms of displacement, isolation and commercialization has migrated from the realm of the urban economy to the internet. A revealing account of the way the digital world has transitioned from a space for DIY countercultures to a playground for the corporate oligarchy."––Paolo Gerbaudo, Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London

Table des matières

Acknowledgments

1. Gentrification Online and Off
2. The People and Platforms Facebook Left Behind
3. The Big Problems of Big Tech
4. The Fight for Fiber
5. Resistance

List of Resources 
Glossary
Sources and Further Reading
Index

A propos de l'auteur

Jessa Lingel is Associate Professor at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia, she works with the Creative Resilience Collective and the Workers Solidarity Network.
 
 

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jessa Lingel, Lingel Jessa
• Edition: University Of California Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 25.05.2021
• EAN: 9780520344907
• ISBN: 978-0-520-34490-7
• Pages: 168
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Sciences de la communication; Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, COMPUTERS / Security / General, Political structure & processes, Communication Studies, Privacy & data protection, Privacy and data protection, Political structure and processes