The Master Switch

The Master Switch

by Tim Wu
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/11/2010

Share This eBook:

  $12.99

Winner of the 2011 Business Book of the Year Award

The Internet Age: on the face of it, an era of unprecedented freedom in both communication and culture. Yet in the past, each major new medium, from telephone to satellite television, has crested on a wave of similar idealistic optimism, before succumbing to the inevitable undertow of industrial consolidation. Every once free and open technology has, in time, become centralized and closed; as corporate power has taken control of the 'master switch.' Today a similar struggle looms over the Internet, and as it increasingly supersedes all other media the stakes have never been higher.

Part industrial exposé, part examination of freedom of expression, The Master Switch reveals a crucial drama - full of indelible characters - as it has played out over decades in the shadows of global communication.

ISBN:
9780857892126
9780857892126
Category:
Media studies
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-11-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Atlantic Books
Tim Wu

Tim Wu is Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School and a contributing writer for the New York Times. He previously worked for Barack Obama and is the author of The Master Switch and The Attention Merchants.

This item is delivered digitally

Reviews

Be the first to review The Master Switch.