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[ecrea] New Book: Becoming Digital by Vincent Mosco

Fri Nov 10 15:32:57 GMT 2017





NEW BOOK: Becoming Digital: Toward a Post-Internet Society

Vincent Mosco

www.vincentmosco.com <http://www.vincentmosco.com/>

Paperback:

http://bit.ly/2vtvQwf

Kindle edition:

http://amzn.to/2iyoZKa

The Next Internet, made up of Cloud Computing, Big Data and the Internet of Things, is creating a society filled with homes that think, machines that make decisions, drones that deliver packages or bombs, and robots that work for us, play with us, and take our jobs. It promises a world where computers are everywhere, even inside our bodies, “coming alive” to make possible the unification of people and machines. /Becoming Digital/ explores the Next Internet as both a reality on the ground and a myth that inspires a new religion of technology. It takes up the coming threats to a democratic, decentralized, and universal Internet and the potential to deepen the problems of commercial saturation, concentrated economic power, cyber-warfare, the erosion of privacy, environmental degradation, and automation. /Becoming Digital /also shows how strong social movements and the right policies can help expand citizen control, social equality, and create a genuinely democratic Next Internet.

Emerald Publishers. November 6, 2017

ISBN-10: 1787432963

ISBN-13: 978-1787432963

Contents:

 1. The Next Internet
 2. Converging Technologies
 3. Power, Politics, and Political Economy
 4. The Body and Culture
 5. Problems
 6. Citizenship in a Post-Internet World

Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, Canada where he held the Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society. He is also Distinguished Professor, New Media Centre, School of Journalism and Communication, Fudan University, Shanghai. Dr. Mosco is author or editor of twenty-three books and over 200 articles and book chapters on communication, technology, and society including /The Digital Sublime, The Political Economy of Communication/ and /To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World/.

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