The people's platform and other digital delusions

Pub Date: 2014-04-15 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: Harper Collins UK From a cutting-edge cultural commentator. a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveler of our age The internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratising force. a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions. THE PEOPLES PLATFORM argues that for all that we tweet and like and share. the internet in fact reflects and amplifies real-world inequities at least as much as it ameliorates them. Online. just as off-line. attention and influence largely accrue to those who already have plenty of both. What we have seen so far. Astra Taylor says. has been not a revolution but a rearrangement Although Silicon Valley tycoons have eclipsed Hollywood moguls. a ha...