Digital Disconnect (Summary)
ebook ∣ How Capitalism Is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
By Robert W. McChesney
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getAbstract Summary: Get the key points from this book in less than 10 minutes.
Robert W. McChesney, author of Rich Media, analyzes the rhetoric around the development of the Internet and points out where web "celebrants and skeptics" agree and disagree. Then he explains that most people, whether they advocate for the web or not, do not understand its relationship to capitalism and the "political economic context" of the Internet revolution. He tries to wave away some of the ideological smokescreen around the way the Internet is progressing societally and economically, and he outlines the way current public policies affecting the web serve corporate interests at the consumers' expense. While always politically neutral, getAbstract recommends McChesney's economic analysis and societal explication as interesting food for thought for futurists, investors, entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in cyberculture, the media, democracy, a functioning public sphere, a free press – or even just a faster Internet connection.
Book Publisher:
The New Press