The System - James Ball

The System

Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us

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Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2020
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Verlag)
978-1-5266-0725-6 (ISBN)
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'A fascinating exposé of the world behind your screen. Timely, often disturbing, and so important'
Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women

'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a murkier world where we discover how everything online works and who benefits from it. Fascinating, engaging and important'
Observer

'Could not be more timely'
Spectator

The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone.

We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure where the real power lies.

In this powerful and necessary book, James Ball sets out on a global journey into the inner workings of the system. From the computer scientists to the cable guys, the billionaire investors to the ad men, the intelligence agencies to the regulators, these are the real-life figures powering the internet and pulling the strings of our society.

Ball brilliantly shows how an invention once hailed as a democratising force has concentrated power in places it already existed – that the system, in other words, remains the same as it did before.

James Ball is the Global Editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the author of multiple books, including Post-Truth. He has worked for BuzzFeed, the Guardian and the Washington Post and his reporting projects have won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the Scripps Howard Prize and the British Journalism Award for investigative reporting, among others.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 153 x 234 mm
Gewicht 450 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Web / Internet
Naturwissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Wirtschaftsinformatik
ISBN-10 1-5266-0725-5 / 1526607255
ISBN-13 978-1-5266-0725-6 / 9781526607256
Zustand Neuware
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