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64%OFFAoife Barry - Social Capital: Life online in the shadow of Ireland’s tech boom - 9780008524234 - S9780008524234
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Social Capital: Life online in the shadow of Ireland’s tech boom

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A David and Goliath story about Ireland’s role as prime real estate for the world’s largest tech multinationals, and the considerable impact it has had on us as individuals.

At the start of the millennium, the Tech giants landed on Ireland’s shores. Dublin, once one of Europe’s poorest cities, became a beacon of Silicon Valley’s promise of progress and power. As the face of the capital ... Read more

In this provocative account, Aoife Barry explores the human cost of Ireland’s Faustian pact with Big Tech, from the local communities uprooted by Google to the traumatised moderators squirrelled in the capital’s pockets, keeping the internet safe at a terrible price. Unsettling, insightful, and wryly funny, she paints a portrait of a country addicted to the internet, refreshing the news, refreshing Twitter, scrolling and scrolling towards a feverish future. She turns an equally honest eye on her own life online, from her humble beginnings using dial-up in her parent’s kitchen to working for Ireland’s first digital-only newsroom, and asks what we bargain in exchange for life in the metaverse.

Social Capital is the coming of age story of Ireland 3.0: set against the backdrop of the tech revolution, it chronicles how we collapse the boundary between physical and virtual reality, and where we might go from here.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
HarperCollins
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780008524234
SKU
S9780008524234
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-5

About Aoife Barry
Aoife Barry is a journalist, broadcaster and writer living in Dublin. She is a former assistant news editor at the Journal.ie and appears frequently on national radio. Her writing has featured in the journals Banshee and Thi Wurd and featured on Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio.

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