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  1. Digital Disconnect
    How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2013
    The author argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems and massive indirect subsidies and other policies have made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism.
  2. IntelligentSearch.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring topics related to research and the Internet. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  3. The Internet, Capitalism, and the State - Book Review
    A Review of Robert McChesney's "Digital Disconnect"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Robert McChesney's Digital Disconnect is an account of the internet's history and likely future within the context of corporate-dominated U.S. society.
  4. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 21, 2018
    Their Interent or Ours?
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2018
    The Internet, which was at one time a free and open space for sharing information and ideas, has been privatized and twisted to serve the profit-making agenda of huge corporations, working hand-in-glove with governments which want to suppress opposition and alternatives. What can we do about it? Is it our Internet or theirs?
  5. Social Networking and the Death of the Internet 
    How Do You "Like" That?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Social Networking is, by its nature, a capture environment. The companies that offer the services, particularly Facebook, host your site and control all the information on it. Facebook — a group of linked pages on a giant website — is constraining and not very powerful. In order to use it, you have to use it the way they want you to and that’s not a whole lot of “using”. But there is a comfort in having one’s options limited, being able to use something without learning anything about it or making many choices about how you use it. That alluring convenience is a poisoned apple, however.
  6. We Are Legion
    The Story of the Hacktivists
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2012
    A history of Anonymous, the radical "hacktivist" collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age.

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