{"title":"Nick Couldry","description":"\u003cp\u003eNick Couldry's works delve into the intricate relationships between media, culture, and society, exploring the profound impacts of digital technologies and data-driven systems. His writing challenges readers to consider how information shapes power structures and human interaction in contemporary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a thoughtful blend of social theory and cultural analysis, Couldry's books offer nuanced insights suitable for those interested in history, education, and the evolving discourse around technology and society. His work is essential for readers seeking a deeper understanding of how media and data influence our world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"data-grab","title":"Data Grab","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeading global experts provide a sweeping, empowering playbook to tackle what Yuval Harari has described as one of the biggest threats to humanity, for fans of Shoshana Zuboff's internationally bestselling \u003cem\u003eThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYour life online is their product.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the past, colonialism was a landgrab of natural resources, exploitative labour, and private property from countries around the world. It promised to modernise and civilise, but actually sought to control. It stole from native populations and made them sign contracts they didn't understand. It took resources just because they were there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eColonialism has not disappeared — it has taken on a new form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the new world order, data is the new oil. Big Tech companies are grabbing our most basic natural resources—our data—exploiting our labour and connections, and repackaging our information to control our views, track our movements, record our conversations, and discriminate against us. Every time we unthinkingly click 'Accept' on Terms and Conditions, we allow our most personal information to be kept indefinitely, repackaged by Big Tech companies to control and exploit us for their own profit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this searing, cutting-edge guide, two leading global researchers—and founders of the concept of data colonialism—reveal how history can help us both to understand the emerging future and to fight back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45695319015660,"sku":"9780753560211","price":32.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780753560211.jpg?v=1725625116"},{"product_id":"the-space-of-the-world-by-nick-couldry-9781509554737","title":"The Space of the World","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOver the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what has become our \"space of the world\" – the highly artificial space of social media platforms where much of our social life now unfolds. This has proved reckless and has huge social consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe toxic effects on social life, young people’s mental health, and political solidarity are well known, but the key factor underlying all this has been missed: the fact that humanity allowed business to construct our space of the world \u003ci\u003eat all\u003c\/i\u003e and then exploit it for profit. In the process, we ignored two millennia of political thought about the conditions under which a healthy or even a non-violent politics is possible. We endangered the one resource that is in desperately short supply in the face of catastrophic climate change: solidarity. Is human solidarity possible in a world of continuous digital connection and commercially managed platforms, and what if it isn’t?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first book of his trilogy, \u003ci\u003eHumanising the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, Nick Couldry offers a radical new vision of how to design our digital spaces so that they build, rather than erode, both solidarity and community. This trenchant and vividly written book stresses that we cannot afford not to care for our space of the world. 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It cannot mean trading away our own cognitive resources – and the power to define the future direction of the human mind – to corporations. It cannot mean ever greater cognitive dependence on business products, while ignoring the implications for environmental sustainability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA good future with AI must mean putting social, community and planetary values first. This book imagines a different social contract with AI, and a different future. It presents clearly the social damage currently being done at work, and particularly the education and creative sectors, by accepting the wrong social contract with AI. And it debunks the philosophical prejudices that block us from valuing our own human cognitive resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this second book of his trilogy, \u003ci\u003eHumanising the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, Nick Couldry argues that the time to renegotiate our contract with AI is now. 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