ISBN:
9781788738804
,
1788738802
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 285 Seiten
,
25 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als York, Jillian C. Silicon values
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Social media Censorship
;
Political science
;
Information technology Moral and ethical aspects
;
Information technology Economic aspects
;
Censorship
;
Human rights
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
;
Political science
;
Social media
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
;
Censorship
;
Human rights
;
Information technology ; Economic aspects
;
Information technology ; Moral and ethical aspects
;
United States
;
Political Science Privacy & Surveillance (see also Social Science - Privacy & Surveillance)
;
Social Media
;
Zensur
;
Redefreiheit
;
Meinungsfreiheit
Abstract:
1. The new gatekeepers -- 2. Offline repression is replicated online -- 3. Social media revolutionaries -- 4. Profit over people -- 5. Extremism calls for extreme measures -- 6. Twenty-first-century Victorians -- 7. The war on sex -- 8. From humans to machines -- 9. The virality of hate -- 10. The future is ours to write.
Abstract:
How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy. What is the impact of surveillance capitalism on our right to free speech? The Internet once promised to be a place of extraordinary freedom beyond the control of money or politics, but today corporations and platforms exercise more control over our ability to access information and share knowledge to a greater extent than any state. From the online calls to arms in the thick of the Arab Spring to the contemporary front line of misinformation, Jillian York charts the war over our digital rights. She looks at both how the big corporations have become unaccountable censors, and the devastating impact it has had on those who have been censored. In Silicon Values, leading campaigner Jillian York, looks at how our rights have become increasingly undermined by the major corporations desire to harvest our personal data and turn it into profit. She also looks at how governments have used the same technology to monitor citizens and threatened our ability to communicate. As a result our daily lives, and private thoughts, are being policed in an unprecedented manner. Who decides the difference between political debate and hate speech? How does this impact on our identity, our ability to create communities and to protest? Who regulates the censors? In response to this threat to our democracy, York proposes a user-powered movement against the platforms to recover ownership of the information describing our existence
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-266) and index
Permalink
