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To make a better internet, Srinivasan says, we need a new ethic of diversity, openness, and inclusivity, empowering those now excluded from decisions about how technologies are designed, who profits from them, and who are surveilled and exploited by them.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49567081201937,"sku":"GOR010202141","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50347483365649,"sku":"CIN0262043130VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52962703704337,"sku":"CIN0262043130G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0262043130.jpg?v=1750695288"},{"product_id":"beyond-the-valley-book-ramesh-srinivasan-9780262539609","title":"Beyond the Valley","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow to repair the disconnect between designers and users, producers and consumers, and tech elites and the rest of us- toward a more democratic internet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this provocative book, Ramesh Srinivasan describes the internet as both an enabler of frictionless efficiency and a dirty tangle of politics, economics, and other inefficient, inharmonious human activities. 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Ramesh Srinivasan and Adam Fish reimagine the internet from the perspective of grassroots activists and citizens on the margins of political and economic power. They explore how the fragments of the existing internet are being utilized - alongside a range of peoples, places, and laws - to make change possible. From indigenous and non-Western communities and activists in Tahrir Square, to imprisoned hackers and whistleblowers, this book illustrates how post-digital cultures are changing the internet as we know it - from a system which is increasingly centralized, commodified, and \"personalized,\" into something more in line with its original spirit: autonomous, creative, subversive.   The book looks past the limitations of the internet, reconceptualizing network technology in relation to principles of justice and equality. 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