From one of the leading intellectuals of the digital age, The Digital Republic is the definitive guide to the great political question of our time: how can freedom and democracy survive in a world of powerful digital technologies? A Financial Times "Bookto Read" in 2022
Not long ago, the tech industry was widely admired, and theinternetwas regarded as a tonic for freedom and democracy. Not anymore. Every day, the headlines blaze with reports of racist algorithms, data leaks, and social media platforms festering with falsehood and hate.In The Digital Republic, acclaimed author JamieSusskindargues that these problems are not the fault of a few bad apples at the top of the industry. They are the result of our failure to govern technology properly. The Digital Republic charts a new course. It offers a plan for the digital age: new legal standards, new public bodies and institutions, new duties on platforms, new rights and regulators, new codes of conduct for people in the tech industry. Inspired by the great political essays of the past, and steeped in the traditions of republican thought, it offers a vision of a different type of society: a digital republic in which human and technological flourishing go hand in hand.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Preface
- Part I: The Age of the Digital Republic
- Part II: The House of Power
- Part III: The Digital is Political
- Part IV: The Marketplace of Ideals
- Part V: The Ghost of Governance
- Part VI: Foundations of the Digital Republic
- Part VII: Counterpower
- Part VIII: Openness
- Part IX: Giants, Data and Algorithms
- Part X: Governing Social Media
- Conclusion: The Digital Republic
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on the Author
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright
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