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  • Cloud Policy

    A History of Regulating Pipelines, Platforms, and Data

    by Jennifer Holt ...
    Series series Distribution Matters
    **How the United States’ regulation of broadband pipelines, digital platforms, and data—together understood as “the cloud”—has eroded civil liberties, democratic principles, and the foundation of the public interest over the past century.2026 Katherine Singer Kovács Book AwardChoice Outstanding Academic Title, 2025**Cloud Policy is a policy history that chronicles how the past century of ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • Tools and Weapons

    The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age

    **The New York Times bestseller, now updated with new material on cyber attacks, digital sovereignty, and tech in a pandemic.From Microsoft's president and one of the tech industry's broadest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates.“A colorful and insightful insiders’ view of how technology ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Break 'Em Up

    Recovering Our Freedom from Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money

    A passionate attack on the monopolies that are throttling American democracy."[We need] a grassroots, bottom-up movement that understands the challenge in front of us, and then organizes against monopoly power in communities across this country. This book is a blueprint for that organizing. In these pages, you will learn how monopolies and oligopolies have taken over almost every aspect of ... Read more

    $17.99 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

  • Digital Disconnect

    How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy

    Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world.McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Controls the Internet?

    Illusions of a Borderless World

    Is the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Fight Back

    A Citizen’s Guide to Standing Up to Dictators

    by Maria Ressa ...
    From the 2021 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and bestselling author of How to Stand Up to a Dictator, a frontline guide to understanding, defending, and rebuilding democracy in the age of AI, with 10 strategic goals broken down into 100 concrete actions citizens can take right now.The window for saving democracy is closing. If 2024 was the tipping point for elections, then 2025 and 2026 have ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Tech Coup

    How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

    A tech insider who has been hailed by The New Yorker for her “forceful critique” of Big Tech describes what must be done to stop its erosion of democracyOver the past decades, under the cover of “innovation,” technology companies have successfully resisted regulation and have even begun to seize power from governments themselves. Facial recognition firms track citizens for police surveillance. ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Disruptive Power

    The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age

    by Taylor Owen ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global political power into a period of unprecedented complexity. In every aspect of international affairs, digitally enabled actors are changing the way the world works and disrupting the institutions that once held a monopoly on power. No area ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Privacy and Big Data

    The Players, Regulators, and Stakeholders

    Much of what constitutes Big Data is information about us. Through our online activities, we leave an easy-to-follow trail of digital footprints that reveal who we are, what we buy, where we go, and much more. This eye-opening book explores the raging privacy debate over the use of personal data, with one undeniable conclusion: once data's been collected, we have absolutely no control over who ... Read more

    $15.99 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

    $29.99 CAD

  • Ground Wars

    Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns

    Political campaigns today are won or lost in the so-called ground war--the strategic deployment of teams of staffers, volunteers, and paid part-timers who work the phones and canvass block by block, house by house, voter by voter. Ground Wars provides an in-depth ethnographic portrait of two such campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD