Against the Machine : : Being Human in the age of the Electronic mob
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"The world is all that is the case" -- Bait and switch -- The me is the message -- The myth of "self-expression" -- The origins of participatory culture -- Down with popular culture -- Participatory culture -- A dream come true -- Being there -- The emperor's new modem.
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there have been better anti-internet screeds
submitted by edwardvielmetti on June 1, 2008, 10:19pm
every generation of writers needs to include its internet dystopians. in the 90s it was Bill McKibben and Cliff Stoll; in the 00s it includes this thin book and the thin works of Andrew Keen.
the argument is mostly an economic one, not an intellectual one - the author is of the class of writers who writes for the sorts of organizations whose continued livelihood is directly challenged by the internet, and he tries to fight back without ever trying to understand.
"the internet is making people's brains soft and squishy", yes perhaps true; but there's more to say than that, and Siegel doesn't say it.
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New York : Spiegel & Grau, c2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 179 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385522656
0385522657
SUBJECTS
Information technology -- Social aspects.
Cyberspace -- Social aspects.
Internet -- Social aspects.
Subculture.
Popular culture.
Computers and civilization.