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Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]

xxi, 276 stran : ilustrace, portréty, grafy ; 24 cm

ISBN 978-1-5381-4895-2 (vázáno)

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001658047

Contents // Acknowledgments // Introduction: From Alert to a Promise to the Reader // IX // xi // part 1: Data 1 // 1 Common Carriers: From Telegraphs to Internet Kill Switches 3 // 2 Encryption: From Zimmerman to the Monetized Self 9 // 3 Massive-Scale Computing: From Depth Bombs to Deep Learning 24 // 4 The Internet: From Hydrogen Bombs to 5G 42 // 5 The World Wide Web: From CERN to Facial Recognition 49 // 6 Dataism: From Reducing Noise to Reducing People 68 // Data Waypoint: The Span of the Knowledge Infrastructure 81 // v // part II: Media 87 // 7 Propaganda: From Influencing Minds to Manipulating Brains 89 // 8 Memory Organizations: From Weaponized Librarianship to a // Digital Dark Age 107 // 9 Media Consolidation: From Steamboat Willie to Disney+ 128 // 10 Trust: From Walter Cronkite to Saul Alinsky 148 // Media Waypoint: The Weaponized Knowledge Infrastructure 172 // ♦ • // Vil // A // * // viii CONTENTS // P ART III: Society 179 // 11 Certainty: From Clockwork to Complexity 181 // 12 Pandemic: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19 200 // 13 People: From Empty Campuses to Open Arms 204 // 14 Technology: From Zoom Bombs to the Shin Bet 216 // 15 Sources: From Swans in Venice to Floods in New Orleans 228 // 16 Policy: From a Commodity to a Public Good 241 // Society Waypoint: From Chemical Warfare to Healing the World 252 // Excursus: On the Joys of Writing and How to Check My Facts 257 // Index 261 // About the Author 277