{"product_id":"surveillance-valley-yasha-levine","title":"Surveillance Valley (Yasha Levine)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n** Featured as a \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e Long Read **\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'[A] fast-paced, myth busting exposé' \u003ci\u003eMax Blumenthal, author of \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Management of Savagery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e'Contentious... forceful... salutary' \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eEVERYTHING WE HAVE BEEN TOLD ABOUT THE DEMOCRATIC NATURE OF THE INTERNET IS A MARKETING PLOY.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nAs the Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown, private corporations consider it their right to use our data (and by extension, us) which ever way they see fit. Tempted by their appealing organisational and diagnostic tools, we have allowed private internet corporations access to the most intimate corners of our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003eBut the internet was developed, from the outset, as a weapon.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nLooking at the hidden origins of many internet corporations and platforms, Levine shows that this is a function, not a bug of the online experience. \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nConceived as a surveillance tool by ARPA to control insurgents in the Vietnam War, the internet is now essential to our lives. This book investigates the troubling and unavoidable truth of its history and the unfathomable power of the corporations who now more or less own it.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\nWithout this book, your picture of contemporary society will be missing an essential piece of the puzzle.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cb\u003e'A masterful job of research and reporting about the military origins of the 'world wide web' and how its essential nature has not changed in the years since its creation during the Cold War.' - Tim Shorrock, author of \u003ci\u003eSpies For Hire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYasha Levine\u003c\/b\u003e is an investigative journalist and author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Leningrad, he grew up in San Francisco and now lives in New York. He has reported from all over the world. See more of his work at yashalevine.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B format, Englisch, 384 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65889302937949,"sku":"K077182757","price":12.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/7718275700001A.jpg?v=1789103400","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/surveillance-valley-yasha-levine","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}