Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewEVERYTHING WE HAVE BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC NATURE OF THE INTERNET IS A MARKETING PLOY. As the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by extension, us) which ever way they see fit. Tempted by their appealing organisational and diagnostic tools, we have allowed private internet corporations access to the most intimate corners of our lives. But the internet was developed, from the outset, as a weapon. Looking at the hidden origins of many internet corporations and platforms, Levine shows that this is a function, not a bug of the online experience. Conceived as a surveillance tool by ARPA to control insurgents in the Vietnam War, the internet is now essential to our lives. This book investigates the troubling and unavoidable truth of its history and the unfathomable power of the corporations who now more or less own it. Without this book, your picture of contemporary society will be missing an essential piece of the puzzle. AUTHOR: Yasha Levine is an investigative journalist and author. Born in Leningrad, he grew up in San Francisco and now lives in New York. He has reported from all over the world. See more of his work at yashalevine.com Full Product DetailsAuthor: Yasha LevinePublisher: Icon Books Imprint: Icon Books Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.405kg ISBN: 9781785784781ISBN 10: 1785784781 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 03 January 2019 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews'Salutary' -- New Yorker Gripping and hugely readable, Surveillance Valley is an essential book which painstakingly pieces together the complex origins, and current role, of a technology that has become so ingrained in our lives. -- All About History 'Surveillance Valley is perhaps one of the most deeply disturbing books of the year. It leaves no illusions intact ...' -- Scroll.in 'Salutary' 'Surveillance Valley is perhaps one of the most deeply disturbing books of the year. It leaves no illusions intact ...' Salutary -- New Yorker Surveillance Valley is perhaps one of the most deeply disturbing books of the year. It leaves no illusions intact ... -- Scroll.in 'Salutary' Gripping and hugely readable, Surveillance Valley is an essential book which painstakingly pieces together the complex origins, and current role, of a technology that has become so ingrained in our lives. 'Surveillance Valley is perhaps one of the most deeply disturbing books of the year. It leaves no illusions intact ...' Author InformationYasha Levine is a Russian-American investigative journalist and author who has written for Wired, the Baffler, and ALternet, among others. He has appeared on network television, including MSNBC, and has his work profiled by the New York Observer, Vanity Fair, and the Verge Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
