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Author Mosco, Vincent, author.

Title Becoming digital : towards a post-internet society / by Vincent Mosco
Edition 1st ed
Published Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017
©2017
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 227 pages)
Series SocietyNow
SocietyNow.
Contents Front Cover -- Becoming Digital -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- About the Author -- Preface -- 1 The Next Internet -- Happy Birthday Internet -- The Web: Deep and Dark -- Grand Convergences -- A Web of Problems -- The Road Ahead -- 2 Converging Technologies -- Technology and Society -- To the Cloud -- The Numbers Will Speak for Themselves -- Bringing Things to Life -- The Power and Peril of Convergence -- Nowhere and Everywhere -- 3 Power, Politics and Political Economy -- Technology and Power
From Research to CommerceBig Tech -- Challengers to the Big Five -- Government Embraces the Next Internet -- The Challenge from China -- 4 The Body and Culture -- Skin in the Game -- Getting Chipped -- Count and Commodify -- The Worker Commodity -- Childâ#x80;#x99;s Play -- Metaphorically Speaking -- Myth-ing Links -- The Singularity Is Near -- Come Alive! -- 5 Problems -- Commercialism and Concentration -- Heavy Bugsplat and Cyber Warfare -- Environmental Impact -- Privacy, Surveillance and the Internet of Hackable Things -- Automation and Jobs
6 Citizenship in a Post-Internet WorldDespair and Disruption -- Revenge of Analog? -- The Value of Impossible Dreams -- Historical Imagination -- Occupy the Internet? -- Break up the Big Five -- Regulate Commercialism -- Resist Militarism -- Control E-Pollution -- Restore Privacy -- Basic Income Is a Human Right -- Conclusion: Towards a Public Utility in Communication -- Endnotes -- Epigraph References -- Further Reading
Summary This book examines the convergence of Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the Internet of Things to forge the Next Internet. Ubiquitous computing enables universal communication, concentration of power, privacy erosion, environmental degradation, and massive automation and this title explores solving these issues to create a democratic digital world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-222) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Internet -- Social aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Internet -- Social aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1787432955
9781787432956
1787432963
9781787432963
9781787436756
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