Pax technica : how the internet of things may set us free or lock us up /: how the internet of things may set us free or lock us up. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Philip N. Howard.
• Other Names: Howard, Philip N
• Contents: 1. Empire of connected things. Carna surveils the realm ; What's in a pax? ; The demographics of diffusion ; Information technology and the new world order ; Pax Romana, Britannica, Americana ; The balaceras of Monterrey ; The internet is also a surveillance state ; The wars only bots will fight ; The political empire of connected things -- 2. Internet interregnum. Discovering the UglyGorilla ; Devices of hope ; The demographics of diffusion ; The Zapatistas reboot history ; From gold to bits ; States don't own it, though they fight hard to control it ; A new kind of new order ; But it's not a Westphalian-or feudal-world -- 3. New maps for the new world. Mapping Hispaniola ; Dictators and dirty networks ; Mubarak's choice ; We are all Laila ; Governments, bad and fake ; The dictator's digital dilemma ; Finding Kibera ; Dirty networks, collapsing ; The democracy of devices -- 4. Five premises for the pax technica. Learning from the internet interregnum ; First premise : the internet of things is being weaponized ; Second premise : people use devices to govern ; Third premise : digital networks weaken ideologies ; Fourth premise : social media solve collective action problems ; Fifth premise : big data backs human security ; Defining the pax technica -- 5. Five consequences of the pax technica. Empire of bits-a scenario ; First consequence : networked devices and the stability of cyberdeterrence ; Second consequence : governance through the internet of things ; Third consequence : from a clash of civilizations to a competition between device networks ; Fourth consequence : connective action and crypto clans ; Fifth consequence : connective security and quality of life ; The downside of connective security -- 6. Network competition and the challenges ahead. My girlfriend went shopping ... in China ; Authoritarian, but social ; Bots and simulations ; DRM for the material world? ; Other challenges (that are lesser challenges) ; The downside of up ; Rival devices on competing networks -- 7. Building a democracy of our own devices. Your coffee betrays you ; Internet succession : computers, mobiles, things ; The world ahead ; The hope and instability of hackers and whistle blowers ; Firing the social scientists-and training new ones ; Putting the civic into the internet of things, domestically ; Device networks and foreign affairs ; How can you thrive in the pax technica? ; The promise of the pax -- Glossary.
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.23/1; Internet -- Social aspects; Information technology -- Political aspects; Technological innovations -- Political aspects; Privacy, Right of; Electronic surveillance; Internet -- Aspect social; Technologie de l'information -- Aspect politique; Innovations -- Aspect politique; Surveillance électronique; 05.38 content aspects of electronic communication; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications; PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology; Internet; Technologies de l'information et de la communication; Société de l'information; Technologie électronique; Télésurveillance; Protection de la vie privée; Electronic surveillance; Information technology -- Political aspects; Internet -- Social aspects; Privacy, Right of; Technological innovations -- Political aspects; Internet; Gesellschaft; Zukunft; Internet der Dinge; Internet; Information and communication technology; Privacy; Sociology; Government; Politics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300213669; 0300213662; 0300199473; 9780300199475
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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