Platform Socialism
eBook - ePub

Platform Socialism

How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Platform Socialism

How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech

About this book

'Ground-breaking and ambitious' - Nick Srnicek, author of Platform Capitalism

Whoever controls the platforms, controls the future. Platform Socialism sets out an alternative vision and concrete proposals for a digital economy that expands our freedom.

Powerful tech companies now own the digital infrastructure of twenty-first century social life. Masquerading as global community builders, these companies have developed sophisticated new techniques for extracting wealth from their users.

James Muldoon shows how grassroots communities and transnational social movements can take back control from Big Tech. He reframes the technology debate and proposes a host of new ideas, from the local to the international, for how we can reclaim the emancipatory possibilities of digital platforms. Drawing on sources from forgotten histories to contemporary prototypes, he proposes an alternative system and charts a roadmap for how we can get there.

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Information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9780745346953
eBook ISBN
9780745346977

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. 1: All the World’s a Platform
  8. 2: Monetising Community
  9. 3: Community-Washing Big Tech
  10. 4: Private Power and Public Infrastructure
  11. 5: Guild Socialism for the Digital Economy
  12. 6: Building Civic Platforms
  13. 7: Global Digital Services
  14. 8: Recoding Our Digital Future
  15. 9: Postscript: 2042
  16. Notes
  17. Index