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Internet Oligopoly - The Corporate Takeover of Our Digital World (Paperback)
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Internet Oligopoly - The Corporate Takeover of Our Digital World (Paperback)
Series: Digital Activism And Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication
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Over the last decade, the digital technologies in everyday life
have multiplied. Our lives have been gradually taken over by
digital devices, networks, and services. Although useful, they have
also become invasive additions to our personal, professional and
public lives. This process has occurred in a globalized and
deregulated economy and a few US-based start-ups transformed into
an oligopoly of multinationals that today govern the informational
infrastructure of our societies. This book offers an analytical
framework of the contemporary internet studied through the lens of
history and political economy. Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and
Microsoft are examined as emblematic products of a new capitalist
order that is resolutely opposed to the original project of the
internet. The author retraces the process of commodification that
resulted in financial rationales taking over from collective and
individual emancipation and uncovers how this internet oligopoly
uses its exorbitant market power to eliminate competition; take
advantage of global financialization to exploit human labour on a
global scale and to avoid taxation; and how it implements
strategies to control our communication methods for accessing
information and content online, thus increasingly controlling the
digital public sphere. The book reveals how the reshaping of
society via private company business models impact on the place of
work in future societies, social and economic inequalities, and,
ultimately, democracy.
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