David Elliot Berman's Books

After Net Neutrality

A New Deal for the Digital Age

By: Victor Pickard,David Elliot Berman

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After Net Neutrality

A New Deal for the Digital Age

By: Victor Pickard,David Elliot Berman

A provocative analysis of net neutrality and a call to democratize online communication This short book is both a primer that explains the history and politics of net neutrality and an argument for a more equitable framework for regulating access to the internet. Pickard and Berman argue that we should not see internet service as a commodity but as a public good necessary for sustaining democratic society in the twenty-first century. They aim to reframe the threat to net neutrality as more than a conflict between digital leviathans like Google and internet service providers like Comcast but as part of a much wider project to commercialize the public sphere and undermine the free speech essential for democracy. Readers will come away with a better understanding of the key concepts underpinning the net neutrality battle and rallying points for future action to democratize online communication.

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188

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Yale University Press

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0300249101

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9780300249101

Cyberlibertarianism

The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology

By: David Golumbia

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Cyberlibertarianism

The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology

By: David Golumbia

An urgent reckoning with digital technology’s fundamentally right-wing legal and economic underpinnings In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the technical and social construction of the digital world from the start. Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia traces how digital evangelism has driven the worldwide shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the utopian presumption of digital technology as an inherent social good. Providing an incisive critique of the push for open access and open-source software and the legal battles over online censorship and net neutrality, Cyberlibertarianism details how the purportedly democratic internet has been employed as an organizing tool for terror and hate groups and political disinformation campaigns. As he unpacks our naively utopian conception of the digital world, Golumbia highlights technology’s role in the advancement of hyperindividualist and antigovernment agendas, demonstrating how Silicon Valley corporations and right-wing economists; antiestablishment figures such as Julian Assange, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Edward Snowden, and Mark Zuckerberg; and seemingly positive voices such as John Perry Barlow, Cory Doctorow, the Electronic Freedom Foundation, and Wikipedia all have worked to hamper regulation and weaken legal safeguards against exploitation. Drawing from a wide range of thought in digital theory, economics, law, and political philosophy as well as detailed research and Golumbia’s own experience as a software developer, Cyberlibertarianism serves as a clarion call to reevaluate the fraught politics of the internet. In the hope of providing a way of working toward a more genuinely democratic and egalitarian future for digital technology, this magisterial work insists that we must first understand the veiled dogmas from which it has been constructed. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.

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451

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452972494

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9781452972497

Solar Energy

A Reference Handbook

By: David E. Newton

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Solar Energy

A Reference Handbook

By: David E. Newton

This book provides an outstanding single-volume resource on the topic of solar energy for young adults and general audiences. While how much longer the world's supply of fossil fuels will last is debatable, it is a fact that the fossil fuels that we depend on so heavily today are non-renewable resources that will inevitably be exhausted—making the need to shift to alternative sources of energy such as solar extremely important. Solar Energy: A Reference Handbook presents encyclopedic coverage of the social, political, economic, and environmental issues associated with the development and use of solar energy in the United States and around the world. This book provides an in-depth description of the ways solar power has been used for at least 2,000 years. It outlines how humankind has utilized various forms of energy from the sun by way of photovoltaic cells, concentrating or focusing solar power, active and passive solar heating, and other mechanisms; and provides perspectives on today's solar energy issues from a variety of subject experts. Readers will better understand not only the advantages and disadvantages of solar power but also the critical nature of energy production to sustaining life on earth, thereby underscoring the importance of developing solar power and other alternative sources of energy to meet the world's energy needs in coming decades. The book also includes profiles of key individuals and organizations related to the field of solar energy, a chronology of important events in the history of solar energy, and a glossary that defines the key terms used in discussing the topic of solar energy.

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345

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1610696964

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9781610696968

Our Sun

Biography of a Star

By: Christopher Cooper,David Spergel,Madhulika Guhathakurta

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Our Sun

Biography of a Star

By: Christopher Cooper,David Spergel,Madhulika Guhathakurta

Presents an all-encompassing guide to the sun, detailing its history, structure, and effect on human civilization.

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227

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1937994198

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9781937994198

Practical Politics for School Administrators

By: David K. Wiles,Jon Wiles,Joseph Bondi

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Practical Politics for School Administrators

By: David K. Wiles,Jon Wiles,Joseph Bondi

A unique and practical guide on how to survive the political pressures of the '80s."--Jacket blurb.

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Allyn & Bacon

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0205071325

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9780205071326

Hating Whitey

And Other Progressive Causes

By: David Horowitz

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Hating Whitey

And Other Progressive Causes

By: David Horowitz

Ideological hatred of whites has become a growth industry, boosted by "civil rights" activists and liberal academics. These once-youthful radicals, now entrenched in positions of power and influence, peddle a warmed-over version of the Marxist creed that supported the communist empire and excuses intolerance to the point of murder. Betraying the legacy of Martin Luther King, this unholy alliance of black civil rights leaders and white radicals threatens to undermine America's moral, political, and economic institutions. ... Undeterred, so it seems, by America's Anglo-Saxon roots, people of every race and creed still flock by the millions to these shores, claiming a share of our unparalleled rights and opportunities. Yet, with staggering hypocrisy, a clique of racial warlords and academic malcontents indict our every institution for racial oppression."--Publisher description.

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320

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1890626317

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9781890626310

The Way We Lived: 1865-present

By: Frederick M. Binder,David M. Reimers

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The Way We Lived: 1865-present

By: Frederick M. Binder,David M. Reimers

This two-volume reader about U.S. history, from the age of Columbus to modern times, uses both primary and secondary sources to explore social history topics and sharpen students' interpretive skills. Each chapter includes one secondary source essay and several related primary source documents.

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324

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0618305866

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9780618305865

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After Net Neutrality

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Our Sun

Our Sun

Practical Politics for School Administrators

Practical Politics for School Administrators

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Hating Whitey

The Way We Lived: 1865-present

The Way We Lived: 1865-present

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