The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
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The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy
By (Author) Matthew Hindman
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
3rd December 2018
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
303.4833
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 155mm, Height 235mm
Description
A book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the online economy The internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online-and grab all the profits from the attention economy. The Internet Trap explains how this happened.
Reviews
"Co-winner of the 2019 Goldsmith Book Prize for Academic Books, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School"
"Winner of the 2018 Frank Luther Mott-Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass Communication Research Award"
"This book reinforces the arguments of other experts in the field with a considerable amount of data and analysis." * Paradigm Explorer *
Author Bio
Matthew Hindman is associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University and the author of the award-winning book The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton). He lives in Washington, DC.
