Books
|
Buy Now
The Fifth Estate - The Power Shift of the Digital Age
Loot Price: R649
Discovery Miles 6 490
|
|
The Fifth Estate - The Power Shift of the Digital Age
Series: OXFORD STUDIES DIGITAL POLITICS SERIES
Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days
|
In the eighteenth century, the printing press enabled the rise of
an independent press—the Fourth Estate—that helped check the
power of governments, business, and industry. In similar ways, the
internet is forming a more independent collectivity of networked
individuals, which William H. Dutton identifies as the Fifth
Estate. Their network power is contributing to a more pluralist
role of individuals in democratic political processes and society,
which is not only shaping political accountability but nearly every
sector of society. Yet a chorus of critics have dismissed the
internet's more democratic potentials, demonizing social media and
user-generated-content as simply sources of fake news and populism.
So, is the internet a tool for democracy or anarchy? In The Fifth
Estate, Dutton uses estate theory to illuminate the most important
power shift of the digital age. He argues that this network power
shift is not only enabling greater democratic accountability in
politics and governance but is also empowering networked
individuals in their everyday life and work, from checking facts to
making civic-minded social interventions. By marshalling world
leading research and case studies in a wide range of contexts,
Dutton demonstrates that the internet and related digital media are
enabling ordinary individuals to search, create, network,
collaborate, and leak information in such independent and strategic
ways that they enhance their informational and communicative power
vis-Ã -vis other actors and institutions. Dutton also makes
the case that internet policy interventions across the globe have
increased censorship of users and introduced levels of surveillance
that will challenge the vitality of the internet and the Fifth
Estate, along with its more pluralist distribution of power.
Ambitious and timely, Dutton provides an understanding of the Fifth
Estate and its democratic potential so that networked individuals
and institutions around the world can maintain and enhance its role
in our digital age.
General
Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
OXFORD STUDIES DIGITAL POLITICS SERIES |
Release date: |
July 2023 |
Authors: |
William H. Dutton
(Emeritus Professor)
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
304 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-068837-0 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
0-19-068837-8 |
Barcode: |
9780190688370 |
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.