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From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies

Technology, Information and Power
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From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies by Jonas C. L. Valente delves into the evolution of online platforms into powerful digital monopolies. The author examines the socio-economic impacts and regulatory challenges posed by these giants, exploring how their influence reshapes markets and society. The book offers a critical analysis of the power dynamics in the digital economy.
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From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies

A timely, insightful historical account of the growing power of Google, Facebook, and other platforms shaping our lives

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In From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies: Technology, Information and Power, Jonas C.L. Valente discusses the rise of platforms as key players in different social activities, from economy to culture and politics. These companies have a daily presence in the lives of the majority of the world population, from social interactions to digital payments and transactions. They are gaining a central role in neoliberal capitalism, shaping contemporary sociability.

The book shows how these platforms work and identifies the hidden interests behind the commercial strategies that guide the development of services offered to Internet users. It takes the specific cases of Google and Facebook and presents their historical development, illustrating how these companies turned into major players in our times.

Series: Studies in Critical Social Science

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781642597929

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 September 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Haymarket Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 402

About the Author

Jonas C.L. Valente is a communications professor and an associate researcher at Communications Policy Laboratory at Communications Faculty in University of Braslia, Brazil. He has published books and papers about the Internet, media regulation, digital technologies, digital rights and free speech.

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