Name: Smart: The Digital Century
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Author: Frédéric Martel
ISBN: 9789352770168

Type

Physical Book

Author

Frédéric Martel

Publisher

HarperCollins

Language

English

Pages

430

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x2.4 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9789352770168

Synopsis "Smart: The Digital Century"

Digitization is accelerating globalization tenfold. Social networks have gone mobile: telephone, television and towns 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? Why is there no minister for communications in the US, and why does no one regulate the Internet there? From Silicon Valley to Tokyo, 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.Drawing on hundreds of interviews in about fifty countries, Frederic Martel examines the different 'Internets' on five continents. In so doing, he reveals that we are moving not only into a connected, globalized world, but also a territorialized one. Smart shows that the Internet has never been truly global, and that it will become increasingly local.

Frédéric Martel

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Frédéric Martel is a French sociologist, journalist, and writer born in 1967. He has specialized in cultural studies, globalization, and issues related to the LGBTQ+ community. He is known for his research on the influence of culture and media on society, as well as his reports on the geopolitics of culture. In addition to collaborating with media outlets like France Culture, he has worked in governmental and academic bodies related to cultural policy.

Among his most notable works are Mainstream: Enquête sur la guerre globale de la culture et des médias (2010), where he analyzes the cultural hegemony of Hollywood and global media, and Sodoma: Enquête au cœur du Vatican (2019), a book based on hundreds of interviews that explores homosexuality within the Catholic Church and the Vatican. His work has garnered both recognition and controversy, establishing him as an influential author in the debate on culture, politics, and society.

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