The net delusion [electronic resource] : the dark side of Internet freedom / Evgeny Morozov.

Author
Morozov, Evgeny [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
Kindle ed.
Published/​Created
New York, NY : PublicAffairs, c2011.
Description
1 electronic book (432 p.) : port.

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        "“The revolution will be Twittered!" declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran. But as journalist and social commentator Evgeny Morozov argues in The Net Delusion, the Internet is a tool that both revolutionaries and authoritarian governments can use. For all of the talk in the West about the power of the Internet to democratize societies, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and repressive as ever. Social media sites have been used there to entrench dictators and threaten dissidents, making it harder--not easier--to promote democracy. Marshalling a compelling set of case studies, The Net Delusion shows why the cyber-utopian stance that the Internet is inherently liberating is wrong, and how ambitious and seemingly noble initiatives like the promotion of “Internet freedom" are misguided and, on occasion, harmful."
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        Bibliographic references
        Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-394) and index.
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        Description based on print version record.
        Contents
        • Introduction
        • 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)
        • Wicked fix
        • Acknowledgements
        • Bibliography
        • Index
        • About the author.
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        Dark side of Internet freedom
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