Addresses how tech empowers community organizing and protest movements to combat the systems of capitalism and data exploitation that helped drive tech's own rise to ubiquity.
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
New Divides (or, Old Divides Made New)
CHAPTER 2
New Titans
CHAPTER 3
New Frontier
CHAPTER 4
New Politics
CHAPTER 5
New Spirit
CHAPTER 6
New Map
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Nicole Aschoff is a writer, editor, and sociologist. She is the author of The New Prophets of Capital, an editor-at-large at Jacobin magazine, and managing editor of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. She holds a PhD in sociology from Johns Hopkins University and previously taught at Boston University. Her writing about corporate power, inequality, and social movements has appeared in the Guardian, the Nation, Dissent, and Al Jazeera, among many other places, and she contributes regularly to podcasts and radio shows. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Connect with her on Twitter (@NicoleAschoff) and online (nicholeaschoff.com).
“A concise analysis of how best to live within the brave new
smartphone world.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Aschoff introduces a creative and appealing way to discuss
societal issues; this book will make readers contemplate their
relationship with their phone and their own place in society.”
—Library Journal
“[Aschoff] encourages us all to be more deliberate, thoughtful, and
aware of how we impact our phones and how they impact us.”
—Booklist
“Aschoff’s analysis of our relationship to our phones is relevant
and urgent. She gives us enough context to understand our
addictions, our willingness to be surveilled and manipulated, and,
better yet, the avenues of resistance against the tech titans that
increasingly control our time, attention, and futures.”
—Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data
Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy and CEO of O’Neil Risk
Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing
“An antidote to the typical screen panic, The Smartphone Society
reframes our phones as a new frontier of American life. It’s a
useful read for anyone worried about how we live with technology,
and that should be all of us.”
—Malcolm Harris, author of Kids These Days: The Making of
Millennials
“The Smartphone Society pierces the fog of the Silicon Valley
fantasy, showing us how these little pocket computers control our
lives for profit—but also how they open new paths to justice.
Nicole Aschoff has given us that rare book, packed with insights
and written with verve. I will never look at my smartphone the same
way—and after reading The Smartphone Society, neither will
you.”
—Jason W. Moore, professor of sociology and author of Capitalism in
the Web of Life
“The Smartphone Society is not your average tech book—it’s one
about who controls our future. In our New Gilded Age, the book
persuasively argues, it’ll be either dictatorial tech giants or the
democratic power of free citizens. I know which outcome I prefer,
and I can think of few better intellectual defenders of a better,
more just future than Aschoff.”
—Bhaskar Sunkara, editor and publisher, Jacobin magazine
“In The Smartphone Society, Nicole Aschoff gives us fresh insight
into how the device and our everyday lives have morphed into one
another. She considers the good and the bad, and helps us to
understand how the smartphone has reshaped society in innumerable
ways. With accessible prose, she looks into selfies and social
media, politics and protest, profit and women’s unpaid work. It is
a cogent read in the era of the smartphone.”
—Rich Ling, Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology, Nanyang
Technological University
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