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- Dean's Digital World Articles
Resource Type: Article Published: 2006 List of Dean's Digital World articles.
- Digital Disconnect
How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 The author argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems and massive indirect subsidies and other policies have made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism.
- From Cave Paintings to the Internet
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media.
- Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 An interview with the current head of Google Search, discussing some of the thought processes behind the current functionality of 'search' and some of its possibilites for the future.
- IntelligentSearch.ca
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website The Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages.
- The Internet, Capitalism, and the State - Book Review
A Review of Robert McChesney's "Digital Disconnect" Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Robert McChesney's Digital Disconnect is an account of the internet's history and likely future within the context of corporate-dominated U.S. society.
- Internets Past
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 This article discusses the Internet and the problems with prevailing public concern over Net neutrality. The author advocates for an alternate way forward, and a need to bring political economy back to the agenda by viewing corporations as political actors and the technology corporations as powerful commercial players with their own agendas.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
Their Interent or Ours? Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2018 The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
- Social Networking and the Death of the Internet
How Do You "Like" That? Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Social Networking is, by its nature, a capture environment. The companies that offer the services, particularly Facebook, host your site and control all the information on it. Facebook a group of linked pages on a giant website is constraining and not very powerful. In order to use it, you have to use it the way they want you to and thats not a whole lot of using. But there is a comfort in having ones options limited, being able to use something without learning anything about it or making many choices about how you use it. That alluring convenience is a poisoned apple, however.
- We Are Legion
The Story of the Hacktivists Resource Type: Film Published: 2012 A history of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age.
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