[ecrea] New Book: Becoming Digital by Vincent Mosco

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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