Name: Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech
ISBN: 9780745346960

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Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

James Muldoon

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Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these companies have developed sophisticated new techniques for extracting wealth from their users. James Muldoon shows how grassroots communities and transnational social movements can take back control from Big Tech. He reframes the technology debate and proposes a host of new ideas, from the local to the international, for how we can reclaim the emancipatory possibilities of digital platforms. Drawing on sources from forgotten histories to contemporary prototypes, he proposes an alternative system and charts a roadmap for how we can get there.Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom. Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these companies have developed sophisticated new techniques for extracting wealth from their users. James Muldoon shows how grassroots communities and transnational social movements can take back control from Big Tech. He reframes the technology debate and proposes a host of new ideas, from the local to the international, for how we can reclaim the emancipatory possibilities of digital platforms. Drawing on sources from forgotten histories to contemporary prototypes, he proposes an alternative system and charts a roadmap for how we can get there.

Book Details

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Publish Date: Jan 20th, 2022
Pages: 208
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.56in - 0.87lb
EAN: 9780745346960
Categories: • Media Studies• E-Commerce - General (see also Computers - Electronic Commer• Political Process - Political Advocacy

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About the Author

Muldoon, James: -

James Muldoon is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Exeter, Head of Digital Research at Autonomy, and YouTube philosopher at Political Philosophy. He also works directly with digital businesses transitioning to fair work practices. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, Time magazine and the Huffington Post.

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Maria Bustillos

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'Platform Socialism' author @james_muldoon_ on the common ownership of platforms: They should be small enough in scale for each voice to count New MEDIAQUAKE with @keharloe https://t.co/tzCTeFPAfc https://t.co/9HhsSC09hW

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Lang dacht journalist @AlejandroTauber dat er niets te doen was aan de macht van Big Tech. Tot hij het boek 'Platform Socialism' van hoogleraar @james_muldoon_ las. 'Er zijn wél alternatieven voor het kapitalistische platformmodel.' https://t.co/UztxmgYete

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'There is a genuine desire for people to have more of a say in how online services and communities function' @james_muldoon_ talks to @broderly about his new book Platform Socialism for @jacobin:https://t.co/n6zI7kcPls

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Praise for this book

'A ground-breaking, ambitious and rigorous account of how and why we must take control over contemporary digital technologies''A clarion call for hope amid twenty-first century doom. With analytical flair, he shows that platforms are not invincible and that their infrastructure may be the key to a better world''A compelling account of the political struggles that will be needed to challenge capital's control over digital platforms, and an essential read for anyone who believes in technology's emancipatory potential.''A punchy analysis of the platform economy that offers more than a critique of big tech's vision of our collective future. Muldoon sketches the contours of a democratic socialist alternative''Encourages us to open our minds fully to the possibility of an alternative future, in which technology is put to work for the many, not the few'

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Vrij Nederland — lees je in

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Vrij Nederland – onafhankelijke journalistiek sinds 1940.

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