McSweeney's Issue 54 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The End of Trust - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1944211608 ISBN 13: 9781944211608

Publisher: McSweeney's, 2018

Synopsis

Is this era of unprecedented, low-level distrust--in our tech companies and our peers, our democracy and our justice system--we never know who's watching us, what they know, and how they'll use it.

Our personal data must be protected against Equifax hacks, doxxing, government tracking, and corporate data mining. Meanwhile, we wade through an unprecedented amount of disinformation and deception. Fake news and Russian-purchased propaganda are woven into our media diets, and anonymity on the internet leaves us ever suspicious.

In the face of this, rather than seek privacy where we can, we eagerly offer up our remaining details to social media, craving the surveillance and scrutiny of our peers. We're unsure of how all of this is affecting the moral development of a generation coming of age in this new culture of surveillance, but we continue on. It leads us to wonder if we've reached the end of trust, and if we even care.

About this title

About the Authors

Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, formerly of the independent news organization ProPublica and the Wall Street Journal. She has twice led investigative teams that were finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting. In 2003, she was on a team of reporters at the Wall Street Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. Her book Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance was published by Times Books in 2014. She is also the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Random House, March 2009).

Madeline Ashby is a science fiction writer and futurist living in Toronto. Her most recent novel, Company Town, is available now from Tor Books.

Alvaro M. Bedoya is the founding director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law, a think tank that studies how government surveillance affects immigrants and people of color. He says things on Twitter at @alvarombedoya.

Edition details

• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944211608
• ISBN 13: 9781944211608
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200
• Editor: Eggers Dave