Move fast and break things : how Facebook, Google, and Amazon have cornered culture and what it means for all of us
Taplin, Jonathan2017
Books, Manuscripts
Jonathan Taplin offers a history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the entrepreneurs like Peter Thiel and Larry Page who founded these all-powerful companies. Their unprecedented growth came at the heavy cost of tolerating piracy of books, music and film, while at the same time promoting opaque business practices and subordinating the privacy of individual users to create the surveillance marketing monoculture in which we now live. It is the story of a massive reallocation of revenue in which $50 billion a year has moved the the creators and owners of content to the monopoly platforms. This book is a call to arms, to say enough is enough and to demand that we do everything in our power to create a different future.
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Author:
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, an imprint of Pan Macmillan, 2017
Collation:
307 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The great disruption -- Levon's story -- Tech's counterculture roots -- The libertarian counterinsurgency -- Digitial destruction -- Monopoly in the digital age -- Google and the risk of regulatory capture -- The social media revolution -- Pirates of the internet -- Libertarians and the 1 percent -- What it means to be human -- The digital renaissance
ISBN:
9781509847723 (paperback)
Dewey class:
303.483
Language:
English
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BRN:
340938
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
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| Glenmore Park - AnyTime Library | Nonfiction | 303.483 MOV | Onloan - Due: 21 Mar 2025 |
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 303.483 MOV | Available |
| St Clair | Nonfiction | 303.483 MOV | Available |