Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle For Internet Freedom
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Overview
A clarion call to action, Consent of the Networked shows that it is time to stop arguing over whether the Internet empowers people, and address the urgent question of how technology should be governed to support the rights and liberties of users around the world.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780465029297 |
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Publisher: | Basic Books |
Publication date: | 01/31/2012 |
Sold by: | Hachette Digital, Inc. |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 320 |
File size: | 421 KB |
Age Range: | 13 - 18 Years |
About the Author
Recently, she was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. MacKinnon is frequently interviewed by major media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Financial Times, National Public Radio, BBC, and other news outlets. She lives in Washington, DC.
Table of Contents
Preface xi
Introduction: After the Revolution xix
Part 1 Disruptions
1 Consent and Sovereignty 3
Corporate Superpowers 6
Legitimacy 12
2 Rise of the Digital Commons 15
The Technical Commons 17
Activism 21
Balance of Power 25
Part 2 Control 2.0
3 Networked Authoritarianism 31
How China's Censorship Works 34
Authoritarian Deliberation 40
Western Fantasies Versus Reality 47
4 Variants and Permutations 51
"Constitutional" Technology 53
Corporate Collaboration 56
Divide and Conquer 62
Digital Bonapartism 66
Part 3 Democracy's Challenges
5 Eroding Accountability 75
Surveillance 76
WikiLeaks and the Fate of Controversial Speech 82
6 Democratic Censorship 87
Intentions Versus Consequences 88
Saving the Children 94
7 Copywars 99
Shunning Due Process 101
Aiding Authoritarianism 104
Lobbynomics 108
Part 4 Sovereigns of Cyberspace
8 Corporate Censorship 115
Net Neutrality 116
Mobile Complications 122
Big Brother Apple 126
9 Do No Evil 131
Chinese Lessons 133
Flickr Fail 139
Buzz Bust 141
Privacy and Facebook 144
10 Facebookistan and Googledom 149
Double Edge 151
Inside the Leviathan 153
Google Governance 159
Implications 164
Part 5 What is to Be Done?
11 Trust, but Verify 169
The Regulation Problem 173
Shared Value 175
The Global Network Initiative 179
Lessons from Other Industries 182
12 In Search of "Internet Freedom" Policy 187
Washington Squabbles 188
Goals and Methods 191
Democratic Discord 196
Civil Society Pushes Back 200
13 Global Internet Governance 203
The United Nations Problem 204
ICANN-Can You? 209
14 Building a Netizen-Centric Internet 221
Strengthening the Netizen Commons 223
Expanding the Technical Commons 227
Utopianism Versus Reality 232
Getting Political 237
Corporate Transparency and Netizen Engagement 243
Personal Responsibility 248
Notes 251
Index 283
What People are Saying About This
Consent of the Networked is a must-read for anyone interested in freedom of personal and political expression in the 21st century. It's accessible, engaging, and periodically hair-raising. It should have the same impact on public awareness of the vital issues surrounding Internet freedom that 'An Inconvenient Truth' had with regard to climate change. (Anne-Marie Slaughter, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University)
For more than a decade, Rebecca MacKinnon has been at the center of evolving debates about how the Internet will affect democracy, privacy, individual liberties, and the other values free societies want to defend. Here she makes a persuasive and important case that, as with other technological revolutions through history, the effects of today's new communications systems, for human liberation or for oppression, will depend not on the technologies themselves but rather on the resolve of citizens to shape the way in which they are used. (James Fallows, The Atlantic)
Consent of the Networked will become the seminal book firmly establishing the responsibility of those who control the architecture and the politics of the network to the citizens who inhabit our new digital world. Consent of the Networked should be required reading for all of those involved in building our networked future as well as those who live in it. (Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab)
Cyber power and governance of the internet is one of the great unsolved problems of the 21st century. Rebecca MacKinnon has written a wonderfully lively and illuminating account of the issues we face in this contentious area. It is well worth reading. (Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University, and author of The Future of Power)
The Internet poses the most complex challenges and opportunities for human rights to have emerged over the last decade. Rebecca MacKinnon's book is a clear-eyed guide through that complexity. (Mary Robinson, Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and President of Ireland)
A growing number of people throughout the world are counting on the Internet to move their countries in a more democratic direction. Consent of the Networked describes what's happening, successes and failures, what's next, and what needs to be done. It's the real deal. (Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist)