The Net Delusion

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• Twitter Can’t Save You

  Just a few years ago, all anyone could talk about was how to make the Internet more free. Now all anyone can talk about is how to control it. Book and newspaper publishers look for ways to protect their original content. Parents seek to shield their ... (read full critics)

  nytimes published on Sat, 5 Feb 2011

• The Net Delusion by Evgeny Morozov: review

  It wasn’t supposed to be like this, of course. According to the prophets, the scribes and the wiseacres, the arrival of the internet was going to be the biggest thing to happen to democracy since the invention of the ballot box. With free access to i ... (read full critics)

  telegraph.co.uk published on Sun, 9 Jan 2011

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  I became curious of reading this book after watching Evgeny TED talk on the same topic:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/evgeny_morozov_is_the_internet…

  I usually collect a "small set" of important quotes to summarise each book I read... for this one I have a "huge set" :)

  Extraord ... (continue)

  I became curious of reading this book after watching Evgeny TED talk on the same topic:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/evgeny_morozov_is_the_internet…

  I usually collect a "small set" of important quotes to summarise each book I read... for this one I have a "huge set" :)

  Extraordinary book for its clarity and the rational approach that uses to deconstruct many of the beliefs of Internet-centrism and cyber-utopianism finding their flaws.
  In few spots I think Evgeny point of view is a bit biased on his side but on the majority of the topics is a book that really changed my assumptions and my point of view.

  I also recommend reading the afterword the Evgeny has published recently:
  http://www.scribd.com/doc/85936832/Afterword-TND

  5th star is not achieved only because it may become a bit boring to read in some chapters... but overall is very recommended !!

  ...here are 3 quotes from the book introduction:

  "The idea that the Internet favours the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naïve belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to acknowledge its downside"

  "Internet-centrism is a highly disorienting drug; it ignores context and entraps policymakers into believing that they have a useful and powerful ally on their side.
  Pernicious tendency to place Internet technologies before the environment in which they operate."

  "To salvage the Internet’s promise to aid the fight against authoritarianism, those of us in the West who still care about the future of democracy will need to ditch both cyber-utopianism and Internet-centrism. Currently, we start with a flawed set of assumptions (cyber-utopianism) and act on them using a flawed, even crippled, methodology (Internet-centrism)"

  If you want to understand why... buy and read the rest of this book :)

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• English Books
• Paperback 432 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 1846143535
• ISBN-13: 9781846143533
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2011
• Also available as: Hardcover, Others and eBook

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