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Smart: Enquête sur les internets

Smart: Enquête sur les internets

Martel, Frédéric

Paperback

Series: Essais - Documents

General Sociology

ISBN10: 2234077346
ISBN13: 9782234077348
Publisher: Stock
Published: Apr 23 2014
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.84 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
Rights sold to Rights sold to Brazil (Record), China (Beijing Yanziyue Culture & Art Studio), Korea (Geulhangari), Italy (Feltrinelli), Spain (Taurus) and Taiwan (Planter Press)

Everything in this book is accelerating. Digitisation is increasing globalisation tenfold; social networks have gone mobile: telephone, television and towns themselves have gone smart. How did China manage to create clones of Google, Facebook and YouTube, and build its own censored version of the internet? How do Arab countries use social networks for their revolutions, and how has Israel become a start-up nation thanks to the web? Is there a real danger that English will become the world's default language on the internet? Why is there no Minister for Communications in the United States, and why does no one regulate the internet there? From Silicon Valley to Tokyo, from Brazil to Washington, from South Africa to southern India, and all the way to Cuba and Gaza, this unprecedented investigation in the field covers the whole battle of the internet and its future.

In Mainstream, Frédéric Martel described the global war between culture and the media; with Smart, he continues the investigation in all the digital capitals. Drawing on hundreds of interviews in about fifty countries, he analyses the interplay of key figures on the web and the logic of American internet giants, and he examines the different internets on five continents. In so doing he reveals that we are moving into a connected, globalised world, but also a territorialised one. The Americans may currently be worried about the Balkanisation of the internet, but this book shows that the internet has never been truly global, and that it will become increasingly local.

Frédéric Martel owns a doctorate in sociology and is a researcher at EHESS, specializing in the United States. He is a columnist for France Info, and for eight years he has presented Soft Power, the most important programme on France Culture devoted to creative industries and the internet. He also directs the non-fiction element of the literary criticism site Nonfiction.fr. He has written nine books, including Mainstream which was an international bestseller and was translated into nine languages.

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