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Filter Bubble
Eli Pariser
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Description for Filter Bubble
Paperback. Imagine a world where all the news you see is defined by your salary and who your friends are. Imagine a world where you can't have secrets. Welcome to 2011. Google and Facebook are already feeding you what they think you want to see. This book reveals how this hidden web is starting to control our lives - and shows what we can do about it. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; UBJ; UDB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 193 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
Imagine a world where all the news you see is defined by your salary, where you live, and who your friends are. Imagine a world where you never discover new ideas. And where you can't have secrets.
Welcome to 2011.
Google and Facebook are already feeding you what they think you want to see. Advertisers are following your every click. Your computer monitor is becoming a one-way mirror, reflecting your interests and reinforcing your prejudices.
The internet is no longer a free, independent space. It is commercially controlled and ever more personalised. The Filter Bubble reveals how ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Viking
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780241954522
SKU
V9780241954522
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Eli Pariser
Eli Pariser is a pioneer in online campaigning. He helped start Avaaz.org, one of the world's largest citizen organizations, and is now President of the five-million member MoveOn.org. He's a Senior Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. He has written for the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal.
Reviews for Filter Bubble
An illuminating flash-forward of what might be
Colin Fraser
Scotland on Sunday
Highlights an important and easily overlooked aspect of the internet's evolution that affects everyone who uses it
The Economist
Pariser is an excellent debunker of internet clichés... [he] comes as close as anyone has to explaining the misgivings that a lot of internet ... Read more
Colin Fraser
Scotland on Sunday
Highlights an important and easily overlooked aspect of the internet's evolution that affects everyone who uses it
The Economist
Pariser is an excellent debunker of internet clichés... [he] comes as close as anyone has to explaining the misgivings that a lot of internet ... Read more