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The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age
Maybe someday
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89/100Author:
Nicole Aschoff
Publisher:
Beacon Press
Date:
March 10, 2020
Aschoff, editor of "Jacobin," addresses how tech empowers community organizing and protest movements to combat the systems of capitalism and data exploitation that helped drive tech's own rise to ubiquity.
What The Reviewers Say
For readers who find themselves wondering about the pocket-sized smartphones that increasingly absorb our time, this in-depth examination of those ubiquitous machines and the roles they play in our everyday lives will shed some light.
The author discusses these societal implications through a left-leaning lens, but readers of all political persuasions can find something relatable here. This is not a historical or business analysis; rather, this work cites research as well as personal stories to show how smartphones have positively and negatively impacted society. In addition to the technology crowd, readers curious about sociology or psychology will enjoy Aschoff’s articulation of how dependent we have become on smartphones.
Aschoff provides both historical context and political insight.
