HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
Subjects
Internet -- Political aspects.
Capitalism.
Democracy.
Internet -- United States.
Internet service providers.
Consumption (Economics)
Advertising -- Social aspects.
Advertising -- Economic aspects.
Browse Catalog
by title:
Digital disconnect [...
MARC Display
Digital disconnect [digital videodisc] : how capitalism is turning the internet against democracy / a Media Education Foundation production ; directed by Jeremy Earp ; produced by Loretta Alper ; written by Robert McChesney & Jeremy Earp.
Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2018]
Subjects
Internet -- Political aspects.
Capitalism.
Democracy.
Internet -- United States.
Internet service providers.
Consumption (Economics)
Advertising -- Social aspects.
Advertising -- Economic aspects.
ISBN:
9781944024116 :
Description:
1 videodisc (63 minutes): sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Requests:
0
Summary:
Digital Disconnect trains its sights on the relationship between the internet and democracy in the age of fake news, filter bubbles, and Facebook security breaches. Moving from the development of the internet as a publicly-funded project in the late 1960s to its full-scale commercialization today, renowned media scholar Robert McChesney traces how the democratizing potential of the internet has been radically compromised by the logic of capitalism and the unaccountable power of a handful of telecom and tech monopolies. Along the way, McChesney examines the ongoing attack on net neutrality by telecom monopolies like Comcast and Verizon; explores how internet giants like Facebook and Google have amassed huge profits by surreptitiously collecting personal data and selling it to advertisers; and shows how these companies have routinely colluded with the national security state to advance covert mass surveillance programs. Even more urgently, the film details how the rise of social media as a leading information source is working to isolate people into ideological filter bubbles and elevate fake news at the expense of real journalism. While most debates about the internet continue to focus on issues like the personal impact of internet addiction or the questionable data-mining practices of a few isolated companies like Facebook, Digital Disconnect digs deeper to show how capitalism itself is turning the internet against democracy.
Audience:
Grade 9-adult.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Copy
Status
Hawaii State Library
DVD -- DVD, Nonfiction, AV Room
DVD NF
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
North Kohala Public Library
DVD -- DVD, Nonfiction
DVD NF 2344
2344
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.0
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.