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The People's Platform argues that for all our 'sharing', 'up-voting', and 'liking', the Internet reflects real-world inequalities as much as it reduces them. Attention and influence accrue to those who already have plenty of both. Cultural products are primarily valued as opportunities for data collection, while creators receive little or no compensation for their efforts. And we pay for our 'free' access to content and services with our privacy, offering up our personal information to advertisers.
We can do better. Employing a mixture of reportage, research and her own experiences working in a creative field, Astra Taylor not only offers an audacious rebuttal to the current Internet orthodoxy, she also presents viable solutions to our predicament. If we want the Internet to be a people's platfrom, we will have to make so.
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People's Platform: And Other Digital Delusions
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The people's platform: taking back power and culture in the digital age
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People's Platform: And Other Digital Delusions
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To put it another way, Web 2.0 is not about users buying products, rather, users are the product. We are what companies like Google and facebook sell to advertisers. Of course, social media have made a new kind of engagement possible: they have also generated a handful of enormous companies that profit off the creations and interactions of others.
These sites exists because of unpaid labor, the millions of minions toiling to fill the coffers of a fortunate few. "Social networking, media and user generated content sites tap into – and exploit – core human emotions.
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