|
|
|||
|
||||
Awards
OverviewFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy--and what can be done about it As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into gr Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cass R. Sunstein , Cass R. SunsteinPublisher: Princeton University Press Imprint: Princeton University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.595kg ISBN: 9780691175515ISBN 10: 0691175519 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 14 March 2017 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Replaced By: 9781400890521 Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsPraise for Republic.com and Republic.com 2.0: Raises important and troubling questions about the effects of the Internet on a democratic society. --Stephen Labaton, New York Times Book Review Praise for Republic.com and Republic.com 2.0: Cass Sunstein sounds a timely warning in this concise, sophisticated account of the rise of the internet culture. --Peter Aspden, Financial Times Praise for Republic.com and Republic.com 2.0: Lucid and valuable. --Jerome Weeks, San Francisco Chronicle Praise for Republic.com and Republic.com 2.0: This perceptive volume effectively illuminates the contradictory impulses at the heart of the citizen-consumer. --Publishers Weekly Praise for Republic.com and Republic.com 2.0: A refreshing counter to overly optimistic perspectives on the internet and democracy. --William Dutton, Times Higher Education Praise for Republic.com and Republic.com 2.0: A splendid antidote to the views of the utopian populists who equate democracy with information choice provided over the internet. --B. Cooper, Choice Praise for Republic.com and Republic.com 2.0: Republic.com enraged many because it asked a set of uncomfortable questions that few had a way of answering... Sunstein continues to press these difficult questions, not as an attack on new technologies but as a challenge to make them make democracy work. This is a compelling if sober set of questions from America's foremost legal scholar. --Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University Author InformationCass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. His many books include the New York Times bestsellers Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler) and The World According to Star Wars. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |