Book ID: CBB153399179

The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom (2021)

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Jessa Lingel (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 168
Language: English

How we lost control of the internet—and how to win it back. The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet argues that much like our cities, the internet has become gentrified, dominated by the interests of business and capital rather than the interests of the people who use it. Jessa Lingel uses the politics and debates of gentrification to diagnose the massive, systemic problems blighting our contemporary internet: erosions of privacy and individual ownership, small businesses wiped out by wealthy corporations, the ubiquitous paywall. But there are still steps we can take to reclaim the heady possibilities of the early internet. Lingel outlines actions that internet activists and everyday users can take to defend and secure more protections for the individual and to carve out more spaces of freedom for the people—not businesses—online.

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Authors & Contributors
Simon Cropper
Lussier, Kira
Nicholas Sakellariou
Margaret Webb
Phillips, Whitney
Bradley Patterson
Concepts
Internet
Technology and society
Computers and computing
Users of technology
Cyberspace
Computer users
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Japan
Finland
Institutions
Facebook (firm)
LinkedIn (firm)
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