Monica Horten

eBook, ePUB

The Closing of the Net (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

This inspirational book provides the backstory to current attempts by states and corporations to control the Internet. It explains key issues such as privacy, net neutrality and copyright in a way that is accessible to non-experts, as well as providing a clear, authoritative context for academic study. The Closing of the Net explains: * Why apps are never 'free', and how data profiling got into politics * How the entertainment industries went head-to-head with Internet companies over online copyright * Why we got the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and why Europe has stronger privacy laws than the US * How post-Snowden surveillance politics is embedded in data retention law * Why net neutrality matters * How cloud service Megaupload was brought down Monica Horten's compelling account of these issues concludes with an outline of the risks we face in the future if monitoring and blocking of the Internet becomes the norm. And the results are chilling. This book is a must-read for all followers of cyber-policy, and is suitable for courses addressing digital media and society, communications policy, Internet and copyright law.

Technische Details

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• Größe: 0.38MB

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Autor

Monica Horten is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She served as an independent expert on the Council of Europe's committee of experts on cross-border flow of Internet traffic and Internet freedom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781509506927
• Artikelnr.: 45097325

Rezensionen

"Today's communications fabric relies on a layered connective space (the Internet). The corporate power that underwrites that space generates an unprecedented power problem for democracy. Monica Horten's sharply written book confronts that problem head-on, with striking case studies. Who really benefits from the "fingertap of desire" that drives our device use? Read this illuminating book to find out."
Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science

"Monica Horten writes about human beings' greatest invention - the Internet - and the emerging political and social trends that may cloud its future. Few thinkers could paint such a compelling, unified picture of the political forces across net neutrality, privacy, and mass surveillance - it is politics, not technology, that will most determine the Internet that our children inherit."
Marvin Ammori, Affiliate Scholar at Stanford Law School, Center for Internet and Society