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With his straight talk and lucid arguments, Andrew Shapiro cuts through the hype to explain just how the Internet revolution has really affected our lives. He tackles the murkiest questions: What is the Internet doing to our sense of self and society? How is it affecting our personal relationships, our political opinions, our business world? Who's in control of it? And whom does it control? Hailed by reviewers, enlightening to newbies and web experts alike, The Control Revolution is "beautifully written...tightly argued...certain to become a classic".
Shapiro shows how the Net allows individuals to take power from institutions, causing hierarchies to unravel in politics, commerce, and social life, and that the result is not as ideal as cyber-utopianists would have us think.
The Third Edition of this popular text provides students with an overview of the entire media process, with an emphasis on how social forces influence the media and how media potentially affect society.
Everyone was gathered waiting for Andrew to arrive. Only the seagull knows where Andrew is. Come read along to find out the seagull’s secret.
The marriage of computers and telecommunications, the global integration of these technologies and their availability at low cost is bringing about a fundamental transformation in the way humans communicate and interact. But however much consensus there may be on the growing importance of information technology today, agreement is far more elusive when it comes to pinning down the impact of this development on security issues. Written by scholars in international relations, this volume focuses on the role of the state in defending against cyber threats and in securing the information age. The manuscript is captivating with the significance and actuality of the issues discussed and the logical, knowledgeable and engaged presentation of the issues. The essays intrigue and provoke with a number of 'fresh' hypotheses, observations and suggestions, and they contribute to mapping the diverse layers, actors, approaches and policies of the cyber security realm.
Dissidents around the world use the Internet to evade censorship and get their message out.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Describes the development of Internet technology, how it works, the benefits to users, and future possibilities.
Over the course of American political history, political elites and organizations have often updated their political communications strategies in order to achieve longstanding political communication goals in more efficient or effective ways. But why do successful innovations occur when they do, and what motivates political actors to make choices about how to innovate their communication tactics? Covering over 300 years of political communication innovations, Ben Epstein shows how this process of change happens and why. To do this, Epstein, following an interdisciplinary approach, proposes a new model called "the political communication cycle" that accounts for the technological, behavioral,...