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  • Media and Society After Technological Disruption

    The internet has reshaped the media landscape and the social institutions built upon it. Competition from online media sources has decimated local journalism and diminished the twentieth century's established journalistic gatekeepers. Social media puts individual users front and center in the creation of the content that they consume. Harmful speech can spread further and faster, and the ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Woke, Inc.

    Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam

    In this New York Times bestseller, a young and successful entrepreneur makes the case that politics has no place in business, and sets out a new vision for the future of American capitalism.There’s a new invisible force at work in our economic and cultural lives. It affects every advertisement we see and every product we buy, from our morning coffee to a new pair of shoes. “Stakeholder capitalism” ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Digital Empires

    The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

    by Anu Bradford ...
    Financial Times Best Books of 2023 in Economics The global battle among the three dominant digital powers—the United States, China, and the European Union—is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires, her provocative ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Digital Republic

    On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century

    From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies?A Financial Times “Book to Read” in 2022Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired, and the internet was regarded as a tonic for freedom and democracy. Not... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Truth Matters

    A Citizen's Guide to Separating Facts from Lies and Stopping Fake News in Its Tracks

    Distinguish fake news from reliable journalism with this clear and concise handbook by New York Times best-selling author Bruce Bartlett.Today’s media and political landscapes are littered with untrustworthy sources and the dangerous concept of “fake news.” This accessible guide helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. Written by Capitol Hill ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Why Privacy Matters

    by Neil Richards ...
    A much-needed corrective on what privacy is, why it matters, and how we can protect in an age when so many believe that the concept is dead. Everywhere we look, companies and governments are spying on us--seeking information about us and everyone we know. Ad networks monitor our web-surfing to send us "more relevant" ads. The NSA screens our communications for signs of radicalism. Schools track ... Read more

    $22.79 CAD

  • #Republic

    Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy—and what can be done about itAs the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Data Cartels

    The Companies That Control and Monopolize Our Information

    by Sarah Lamdan ...
    In our digital world, data is power. Information hoarding businesses reign supreme, using intimidation, aggression, and force to maintain influence and control. Sarah Lamdan brings us into the unregulated underworld of these "data cartels", demonstrating how the entities mining, commodifying, and selling our data and informational resources perpetuate social inequalities and threaten the ... Read more

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  • Infotopia : How Many Minds Produce Knowledge

    The rise of the "information society" offers not only considerable peril but also great promise. Beset from all sides by a never-ending barrage of media, how can we ensure that the most accurate information emerges and is heeded? In this book, Cass R. Sunstein develops a deeply optimistic understanding of the human potential to pool information, and to use that knowledge to improve our lives. In ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Between Truth and Power

    The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism

    A work of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship that explores the ways that law and technology interact. Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, as accountability for industrial-age harms became a pervasive source of conflict, the US legal system ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Privacy

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    We live more and more of our lives online; we rely on the internet as we work, correspond with friends and loved ones, and go through a multitude of mundane activities like paying bills, streaming videos, reading the news, and listening to music. Without thinking twice, we operate with the understanding that the data that traces these activities will not be abused now or in the future. There is an ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Digital Person

    Technology and Privacy in the Information Age

    Seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day, electronic databases are compiling information about you. As you surf the Internet, an unprecedented amount of your personal information is being recorded and preserved forever in the digital minds of computers. For each individual, these databases create a profile of activities, interests, and preferences used to investigate backgrounds, check credit, ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD