The Future of the Internet
Title | The Future of the Internet PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Zittrain |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2009-05-28 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 014103159X |
Jonathan Zittrain argues that the Internet is on a path towards ruin. He argues that the Internet is losing 'generativity', the capacity to welcome unfiltered contributions from anyone, and offers a way for us to save this generative Internet.
A History of the Internet and the Digital Future
Title | A History of the Internet and the Digital Future PDF eBook |
Author | Johnny Ryan |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2010-09-15 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 1861898355 |
A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship, copyright infringement, intellectual freedom, and terrorism and warfare. Johnny Ryan explains how the Internet has revolutionized political campaigns; how the development of the World Wide Web enfranchised a new online population of assertive, niche consumers; and how the dot-com bust taught smarter firms to capitalize on the power of digital artisans. From the government-controlled systems of the Cold War to today’s move towards cloud computing, user-driven content, and the new global commons, this book reveals the trends that are shaping the businesses, politics, and media of the digital future.
The Next Digital Decade
Title | The Next Digital Decade PDF eBook |
Author | Berin Szoka |
Publisher | TechFreedom |
Pages | 578 |
Release | 2011-06-10 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0983820600 |
The Road Ahead
Title | The Road Ahead PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Gates |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring
Access Contested
Title | Access Contested PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Deibert |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 2011-09-30 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 026229804X |
Experts examine censorship, surveillance, and resistance across Asia, from China and India to Malaysia and the Philippines. A daily battle for rights and freedoms in cyberspace is being waged in Asia. At the epicenter of this contest is China—home to the world's largest Internet population and what is perhaps the world's most advanced Internet censorship and surveillance regime in cyberspace. Resistance to China's Internet controls comes from both grassroots activists and corporate giants such as Google. Meanwhile, similar struggles play out across the rest of the region, from India and Singapore to Thailand and Burma, although each national dynamic is unique. Access Contested, the third volume from the OpenNet Initiative (a collaborative partnership of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and the SecDev Group in Ottawa), examines the interplay of national security, social and ethnic identity, and resistance in Asian cyberspace, offering in-depth accounts of national struggles against Internet controls as well as updated country reports by ONI researchers. The contributors examine such topics as Internet censorship in Thailand, the Malaysian blogosphere, surveillance and censorship around gender and sexuality in Malaysia, Internet governance in China, corporate social responsibility and freedom of expression in South Korea and India, cyber attacks on independent Burmese media, and distributed-denial-of-service attacks and other digital control measures across Asia.
After the Internet
Title | After the Internet PDF eBook |
Author | Ramesh Srinivasan |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 2017-10-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1509506217 |
In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, and concern that the internet has heightened rather than combated various forms of political and social inequality, it is time we ask: what comes after a broken internet? Ramesh Srinivasan and Adam Fish reimagine the internet from the perspective of grassroots activists and citizens on the margins of political and economic power. They explore how the fragments of the existing internet are being utilized - alongside a range of peoples, places, and laws - to make change possible. From indigenous and non-Western communities and activists in Tahrir Square, to imprisoned hackers and whistleblowers, this book illustrates how post-digital cultures are changing the internet as we know it - from a system which is increasingly centralized, commodified, and "personalized," into something more in line with its original spirit: autonomous, creative, subversive. The book looks past the limitations of the internet, reconceptualizing network technology in relation to principles of justice and equality. Srinivasan and Fish advocate for an internet that blends the local concerns of grassroots communities and activists with the need to achieve scalable change and transformation.
Changemakers
Title | Changemakers PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Arvidsson |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1509538917 |
This book argues that, as industrial capitalism enters a period of prolonged crisis, a new paradigm of ‘industrious modernity’ is emerging. Based on small-scale, commons-based and market-oriented entrepreneurship, this industrious modernity is being pioneered by the many outcasts that no longer find a place within a crumbling industrial modernity. This new industriousness draws on the new planetary commons that have been generated by the globalization of industrial capitalism itself. The outsourcing of material production to global supply chains has made the skills necessary to engage in commodity production generic and common, and the globalization of media culture and the internet have generated new knowledge commons. Together these new commons have radically reduced the capital requirements to engage in economic activity, and are providing new, highly efficient tools of productive organization at little cost. This timely analysis of the new forces of change in our societies today will be of great interest to anyone concerned with the impact of digital technologies and the future of capitalism.