The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy by Hindman, Matthew

The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

A book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the online economy The internet was supposed...
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The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy by Hindman, Matthew

The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

$113.05

The Internet Trap: How the Digital Economy Builds Monopolies and Undermines Democracy

$113.05
Author: Matthew Hindman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

A book that challenges everything you thought you knew about the online economy

The internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies impossible. Instead, behemoths like Google and Facebook now dominate the time we spend online--and grab all the profits from the attention economy. The Internet Trap explains how this happened. This provocative and timely book sheds light on the stunning rise of the digital giants and the online struggles of nearly everyone else--and reveals what small players can do to survive in a game that is rigged against them.

Matthew Hindman shows how seemingly tiny advantages in attracting users can snowball over time. The internet has not reduced the cost of reaching audiences--it has merely shifted who pays and how. Challenging some of the most enduring myths of digital life, Hindman explains why the internet is not the postindustrial technology that has been sold to the public, how it has become mathematically impossible for grad students in a garage to beat Google, and why net neutrality alone is no guarantee of an open internet. He also explains why the challenges for local digital news outlets and other small players are worse than they appear and demonstrates what it really takes to grow a digital audience and stay alive in today's online economy.

The Internet Trap shows why, even on the internet, there is still no such thing as a free audience.

Author: Matthew Hindman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 09/25/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780691159263

About the Author
Matthew Hindman is associate professor of media and public affairs at George Washington University and the author of the award-winning book The Myth of Digital Democracy (Princeton). He lives in Washington, DC.

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