👩💻 Big Tech, Surveillance Capitalism and our Digital Future 🧑🏾💻
One of our favourite radio programmes is Techtonic, a weekly show presented by Mark Hurst on New Jersey freeform station WFMU. Mark talks to 'creators and thinkers who are charting the way forward in a tech-saturated society,' and the news is not always good...
Here's a list of books by some of his guests.
To listen to interviews with these authors, follow this link to over four years of archived shows.
Data Grab: The new Colonialism of Big Tech and how to fight back
Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry
£22.00
£20.90
Super Thinking: Upgrade Your Reasoning and Make Better...
Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann
£16.99
£16.14
The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition
Jonathan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Oxford) Tepper
£16.99
£16.14
Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines...
University of Virginia) Vaidhyanathan Professor of Media Studies Siva (Professor of Media Studies
£15.99
£15.19
Re-Engineering Humanity
Brett Frischmann and New York) Selinger Evan (Rochester Institute of Technology
£18.99
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Meredith (New York University) Broussard
£14.99
£14.24
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and...
Bruce (Harvard Kennedy School) Schneier
£23.99
Pegasus: The Story of the World's Most Dangerous Spyware
Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud
£20.00
£19.00
Chokepoint Capitalism: how big tech and big content captured...
Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
£10.99
£10.44
The Cult of We: Wework and the Great Start-Up Delusion
Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
£10.99
£10.44
Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of...
University of Texas at Austin) Brayne Assistant Professor of Sociology Sarah (Assistant Professor of Sociology
£27.49
£26.11
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human...
Professor Shoshana Zuboff
£12.99
£12.34
Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future...
Santa Clara University) S.J. Professor in the Department of Philosophy Shannon (S.J. Professor in the Department of Philosophy
£20.99
Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data,...
Monash University - Caulfield campus) Sadowski Jathan (Research Fellow
£21.00
£19.95
The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware...
Professor and the National Michael (Professor and the National Center Chair in the Computer and Information Science department and University of P Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor Aaron (Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Associate Professor
£23.49
£22.31
Mark Hurst signs off every show with these words:
"Avoid Apple, abandon Amazon, forget Facebook and, whatever you do, Get. Off. Google.”