Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom - Hardcover

Rebecca MacKinnon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0465024424 ISBN 13: 9780465024421

Publisher: Basic Books, 2012

Synopsis

Cyber power and governance of the internet is one of the great unsolved problems of the 21st century.Rebecca Mackinnon has written a wonderfully lively and illuminating account of the issues we face in this contentious area. Essential reading for anyone interested in freedom of personal and political expression in the 21st century. (pol)

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Review:

For nearly a decade, Rebecca MacKinnon has been at the center of evolving debates about how the Internet will affect democracy, privacy, individual liberties, and the other values free societies want to defend. Here she makes a persuasive and important case that, as with other technological revolutions through history, the effects of today's new communications systems, for human liberation or for oppression, will depend not on the technologies themselves but rather on the resolve of citizens to shape the way in which they are used . --James Fallows, National Correspondent,The Atlantic

Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world --Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

Cyber Power and governanve of the internet is on eof the great unsolved problems of the twent-first century. Rebecca MacKinnon has written a wonderfully lively and illuminating account of the issues we face in this contentious era. It is well worth reading. --Joseph S. Nye, Jr Universtiy Distingushed Service Professor Harvard University

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"An excellent survey of the Internet's major fault lines."-Wall Street Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0465024424
• ISBN 13: 9780465024421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352