Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It - Image 1

Price loading...

Verso Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It

Name: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It
Brand: Verso

E-business

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

"Enshittification" is Doctorow's word to describe the decay of online platforms, from exciting novelty to everyday essential, to what we have today. "Enshittification" has been word of the year in the UK, USA and Australia. It's been printed in the pages of the *FT* and declaimed from podiums at the EU. As a word, it captures the feeling of a world that is ever worsening. As an idea, it explains why it's getting worse, whose fault that is, and what to do about the misogyny, conspiratorialism, surveillance, manipulation, and fraud that have taken over the internet. Enshittification is not a technical glitch. It is a technique that every platform - from X to TikTok, Amazon to Apple, has adopted. First they lure users onto their platforms, then attract businesses who might profit from this newly formed public, and then finally squeeze both for their own profit. Tech giants lure users in with convenience and then degrade their services over time, draining profit at the cost of user experience. In the meantime our public squares have turned somewhere between the mall and a dumpster fire, that is unfit to deal with the problems of our times. What is to be done? Like a surgeon, Doctorow sets out the symptoms, the diagnosis and the cure to these metastasizing platforms. We need to question the monopolies that dominate so much of our online lives, we must demand regulation and our privacy back, allow for interoperability, and win tech workers' rights. 'Enshittification' will be the most talked about tech book - and word - of the year. Praise for The Internet Con: One of the Internet's most interesting writers. -- Edward Snowden This book fills me with hope that a radical yet plausible alternative to computational tyranny can be developed and deployed. -- Douglas Rushkoff, author of Survival of the Fittest This book is the instruction manual Big Tech doesn't want you to read. It deconstructs their crummy products, undemocratic business models, rigged legal regimes, and lies. Crack this book and help build something better. -- Astra Taylor A brilliant barn burner of a book. Cory is one of the sharpest tech critics, and he shows with fierce clarity how our computational future could be otherwise. -- Kate Crawford, author of The Atlas of AI

Key Features

New Store Stock

Product Specifications

Brand: Verso
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1836742223
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > E-Commerce > E-business
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 14 October 2025
Listed Since: 26 February 2025

Barcode

No barcode data available

Verso Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Key Features

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Internet Oligopoly: The Corporate Takeover of Our Digital World (Digital Activism And Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication)

The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World

Era Capitalismului De Supraveghere

Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion (Contemporary Liminality)

Social Media: A Critical Introduction

Enlightenment in an Age of Destruction: Intellectuals, World Disorder, and the Politics of Empire (Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice)

Digital Detachment by Routledge - Computer Culture and Democracy

Society, Ethics, and Technology, International Edition

Data-centric Living: Algorithms, Digitization and Regulation

The Evolving Landscape of Ethical Digital Technology

Bodies of Information: Intersectional Feminism and the Digital Humanities (Debates in the Digital Humanities)

Handbook on the Economics of the Internet

The Humanized Internet

The Social Media Revolution: An Economic Encyclopedia of Friending, Following, Texting, and Connecting

The Internet of Things Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Challenges and Opportunities

The Internet of Things Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Challenges and Opportunities

Interdisciplinary Knowledge Organization

International Aspects of Recent Phenomena in Media and Culture

The End of the Future: Governing Consequence in the Age of Digital Sovereignty

The Future of Work in the United States: Discourses on Automation and the Platform Economy (Contributions to Economics)

New Media and the Artaud Effect

Reweaving the Web: How together we can create a human-centered Internet of trust

Everything is a Lie; Nothing is True (Color Hardback): 21 Critical Subjects Few Know Anything About

"Trust the Math – Encryption is Your Friend": Zum Umgang mit ontologischer Unsicherheit in einer digitalisierten Lebenswelt