An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist - Couverture souple

Lingel, Professor Jessa

 
9780691235615: An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0691235619 ISBN 13 : 9780691235615
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2022

Synopsis

How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early web

Begun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends about cool events happening around San Francisco, craigslist is now the leading classifieds service on the planet. It is also a throwback to the early internet. The website has barely seen an upgrade since it launched in 1996. There are no banner ads. The company doesn't profit off your data. An Internet for the People explores how people use craigslist to buy and sell, find work, and find love--and reveals why craigslist is becoming a lonely outpost in an increasingly corporatized web.

Drawing on interviews with craigslist insiders and ordinary users, Jessa Lingel looks at the site's history and values, showing how it has mostly stayed the same while the web around it has become more commercial and far less open. She examines craigslist's legal history, describing the company's courtroom battles over issues of freedom of expression and data privacy, and explains the importance of locality in the social relationships fostered by the site. More than an online garage sale, job board, or dating site, craigslist holds vital lessons for the rest of the web. It is a website that values user privacy over profits, ease of use over slick design, and an ethos of the early web that might just hold the key to a more open, transparent, and democratic internet.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jessa Lingel is assistant professor of communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community. She lives in Philadelphia.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691235619
ISBN 13 
9780691235615
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780691188904: An Internet for the People: The Politics and Promise of Craigslist

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0691188904 ISBN 13 :  9780691188904
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2020
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