Digital Disconnect: How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
- ISBN-10
- 1595588671
- ISBN-13
- 9781595588678
- Category
- Computers
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-03-05
- Publisher
- New Press, The
- Author
- Robert W. McChesney
Description
Looks at the relationship between economic power and the digital world, encouraging readers to fight back against the monopolies that are making the Internet less democratic. 20,000 first printing.
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