An Internet for the People (eBook)

The Politics and Promise of craigslist

Jessa Lingel (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
208 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19988-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.2.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: 6 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: Advertising • anonymity • A Shadow History of the Internet • backpage • Bill Gates • black twitter • Blog • Blogger (service) • bookmobile • Business Model • Capitalism • Censorship • Chat room • Christine Lagorio-Chafkin • Classified advertising • Collaboration • Competition • Confidence trick • Craigslist • craigslist killings • Crime • Customer • Cyberculture • Danah Boyd • Designer • ebay • Email • Email address • Emerging Technologies • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Everyday life • Facebook • Finn Brunton • Fraud • freedom of speech • Funding • Gentrification • harassment • Headline • History of the internet • Human Trafficking • Ideology • income • Infrastructure • Insider • Internet Access • Internet forum • Law enforcement • letgo • LexisNexis • LinkedIn • Make a Difference • Marketing • Mark Zuckerberg • media history • Mentorship • Microsoft • Missed connection • monetization • Moral Panic • MySpace • narrative • Negotiation • newbie • newspaper • obsolescence • OKCupid • Online and offline • online classified ads • Online Dating • online dating service • online marketplace • Online shopping • online social media • Online Stores • Opportunism • Ownership • participant • paul allen • personals • Politics • popularity • privacy • Prostitution • Pseudonym • pseudonymity • Racism • reddit • red-light district • Reputation • Retail • Sexism • Sex Trafficking • Sexual Violence • Sex Work • Sex Worker • Snapchat • social issue • Social Media platforms • social networking services • Spam • Spamming • Steve Jobs • Suggestion • Surveillance • taskrabbit • Tax • Technology • The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet's Culture Laboratory • Tinder (app) • Trade-off • tumblr • Twitter • Uncertainty • Venture Capital • We Are the Nerds • Web 2.0 • Website • Wired magazine • Writing • youtube
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19988-4 / 0691199884
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19988-7 / 9780691199887