Books like The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

A critical examination of Silicon Valley that interrogates its social, economic, and ethical dimensions within the framework of technology‑driven capitalism.

Right-wing extremists threaten Germany’s democratic institutions and how to resist a potential authoritarian takeover.

The story of the telegraph's creation and remarkable impact, told through the lives of key figures like Jean-Antoine Nollet, Samuel Morse, and Thomas Edison.

Diane Coyle examines how the rise of electronic commerce and information technology reshapes the 20th‑century economy, altering employment, forecasting, and security in a rapidly digitizing world.

Howard Rheingold explores how the Internet creates real social communities where users talk, argue, share knowledge, organize politically, form relationships, and even experience online emotional support, while also noting its darker side.

This title examines the remarkable lives of Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes and their work building the social networking site Facebook. Readers will learn about each founder?s background and education, as well as his early career. Also covered is a look at how Facebook operates, issues the company faces, its successes, and its impact on society. Color photos and informative sidebars accompany easy-to-read, compelling text. Features include a timeline, facts, additional resources, Web sites, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.

An action‑oriented examination of how low‑income communities respond to rapid social, economic, political, and cultural changes driven by new information technologies, weighing viewpoints of enthusiasts, skeptics, and activists.

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Just as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasionis an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions of our market-centered world. Conservatives often point to Friedrich Hayek as the most influential defender of the free market. By examining the work of such organizations as the Mont Pèlerin Society, an international association founded by Hayek in 1947 and later led by Milton Friedman, Burgin reveals that Hayek and his colleagues were deeply conflicted about many of the enduring problems of capitalism. Far from adopting an uncompromising stance against the interventionist state, they developed a social philosophy that admitted significant constraints on the market. Postwar conservative thought was more dynamic and cosmopolitan than has previously been understood. It was only in the 1960s and '70s that Friedman and his contemporaries developed a more strident defense of the unfettered market. Their arguments provided a rhetorical foundation for the resurgent conservatism of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan and inspired much of the political and economic agenda of the United States in the ensuing decades. Burgin's brilliant inquiry uncovers both the origins of the contemporary enthusiasm for the free market and the moral quandaries it has left behind.

Fusion of historical narrative and contemporary stories to analyze the social media revolution's impact on community, friendship, and individual freedom.

This is one of the few books on substantive public policy written by a political scientist with behavioral training. The author subjects the key policies of the post-World War II period to close scrutiny and finds virtually every area of government activity- business regulation, agriculture, housing and urban programs, the War on Poverty, civil rights, foreign policy- marked by blind adherence to formulas that bear little relevence to the conditions they were designed to correct. The author finds the need for reform beyond solution by patchwork governmental commissions. -- from Back Cover.

A tale of rebellion and revolution, blending the story of the Luddites with the anxieties of the present-day tech industry, as one historian investigates the impact of automation on our lives and the future of humanity.

Explains the impact of surveillance capitalism on our digital rights and the need for a user-powered movement against major corporations like Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

A nonfiction examination of U.S. federal administrative agencies, public administration, and civil service practices during 2017‑2021.