The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology Is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance, Hardcover - Steven Feldstein

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DescriptionIn the space of one election cycle, authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypa...

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Two experts on the information economy explore the true economic value of technology and innovation.A wave of business innovation is driving the pr...

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Shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber PrizeIn Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a nove...

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The modern retail system has worked to dazzling effect. From the 19th century, store owners emerged from small beginnings to set in train an indust...

The battle for hearts and minds in the Middle East is being fought not on the streets of Baghdad, but on the newscasts and talk shows of Al Jazeera...

DescriptionKenya is the most digitally advanced country in sub-Saharan Africa, where Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, and other online platforms are pa...

Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, pra...

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When we think of global corporations and business in general, do we feel pride in how we do things? Are we doing enough, given the undeniable reali...

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory.Toda...

This book challenges the conceptual and practical effectiveness of resistance to achieve social and political change, and considers an alternative ...

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Publisher: Amba PressAuthor(s): Michael C. NagelNumber of pages: 154Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 234 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

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Tracing how the issue of unauthorized migration consumed Arizona state politics from 2003 to 2010, this book provides new perspective on why policy...

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Ideal for general readers as well as students and researchers of language, linguistics and communication, this book examines the evolution of emoji...

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We live in a world in which Google's search algorithms determine how we access information, Facebook's News Feed algorithms shape how we socialize,...

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How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds -- intelligent machines equal to or greater in power th...

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