The Gentrification of the Internet: How to Reclaim Our Digital Freedom

by Jessa Lingel

Book Overview

How we lost control of the internet--and how to win it back.

The internet has become a battleground. Although it was unlikely to live up to the hype and hopes of the 1990s, only the most skeptical cynics could have predicted the World Wide Web as we know it today: commercial, isolating, and full of, even fueled by, bias. This was not inevitable. The Gentrification of the Internet argues that much like our cities, the internet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520395565
• ISBN13: 9780520395565
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.9"