Net delusion : how not to liberate the world

Morozov, Evgeny.

Net delusion : how not to liberate the world - London Allen Lane 2011 - xvii,408 p. 23 cm ; Hard Bound

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The Google doctrine --
Texting like it's 1989 --
Orwell's favorite lolcat --
Censors and sensibilities --
Hugo Chavez would like to welcome you to the spinternet --
Why the KGB wants you to join Facebook --
Why Kierkegaard hates slacktivism --
Open networks, narrow minds : cultural contradictions of internet freedom --
Internet freedoms and their consequences --
Making history (more than a browser menu) --
The wicked fix.


Does free information mean free people? At the start of the 21st century we were promised that the internet would liberate the world. In 'The Net Delusion', Evgeny Morozov destroys this myth, arguing that 'internet freedom' is an illusion, and that technology has failed to help protect people's rights.

978-1846143533


Sociology
Internet--Censorship
Internet--Political aspects
Freedom of Information

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