Vincent Mosco is Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, Canada where he held the Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society. He is also Distinguished Professor, New Media Centre, School of Journalism and Communication, Fudan University, Shanghai. Dr. Mosco is author or editor of 26 books and over 200 articles and book chapters on communication, technology, and society including The Digital Sublime, The Political Economy of Communication and To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World.
Mosco, (Professor Emeritus, Queen's University, Canada) offers the reader a view into the not-to-distant future of the internet. He delves into ideas such as the Cloud, Big Data, surveillance capitalism and personal technology. The well researched text looks at the ways the future of the internet can be used for exploitation, and, conversely, discusses ways it may be used to promote democracy and social justice. What does it mean to have a smart house? What are the dangers of having not only all your information online, but having the internet make day to day decisions for you? Mosco weighs the pros and cons of this brave new world in this readable, research driven text. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *