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Platform socialism : how to reclaim our digital future from big tech / James Muldoon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: vii, 182 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780745346953
  • 0745346952
  • 9780745346960
  • 0745346960
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 302.23/1 23 MUL.P
LOC classification:
  • HM851 .M853 2022
Other classification:
Contents:
All the word's a platform -- Monetising community -- Community-washing big tech -- Private power and public infrastructure -- Guild socialism for the digital economy -- Building civic platforms -- Global digital services -- Recoding our digital future -- Postscript: 2042.
Summary: "Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first-century social and economic 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 possibilites of digital platforms."--From back cover.
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Reference Reference International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research General Stacks International Centre for Marxian Studies & Research 302.23/1 MUL.P (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan CMS3052

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-178) and index.

All the word's a platform -- Monetising community -- Community-washing big tech -- Private power and public infrastructure -- Guild socialism for the digital economy -- Building civic platforms -- Global digital services -- Recoding our digital future -- Postscript: 2042.

"Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first-century social and economic 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 possibilites of digital platforms."--From back cover.

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