The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age

by Nicole Aschoff

Book Overview

Addresses how tech empowers community organizing and protest movements to combat the systems of capitalism and data exploitation that helped drive tech's own rise to ubiquity.

Our smartphones have brought digital technology into the most intimate spheres of life. It's time to take control of them, repurposing them as pathways to a democratically designed and maintained digital commons that prioritizes people over profit.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807061689
• ISBN13: 9780807061688
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"