Index
Vincent Mosco
(Queen’s University)
ISBN: 978-1-78743-296-3, eISBN: 978-1-78743-295-6
Publication date: 16 October 2017
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Citation
Mosco, V. (2017), "Index", Becoming Digital (Society Now), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 223-227. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78743-295-620181011
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited
INDEX
Adobe
, 71
The Age of Spiritual Machines (Kurzweil)
, 123
Airbnb
, 71
Algorithms
, 12, 139
Alibaba
, 86–87
AliCloud
, 86
Alphabet
, 67
Amazon
, 3, 5, 6, 18, 19, 21, 22, 27, 29, 44, 70, 71, 72, 86, 107, 111, 132
Amazon Machine Learning (AML)
, 46
Amazon Wallet
, 76
Amazon Web Services
, 8, 18, 30, 68, 72, 73
AMC Theatres
, 90
American Big Tech
, 65–76
Apple
, 2, 5, 11, 18, 22, 27, 44, 66, 67, 68, 69, 76, 78, 103, 107, 132
Apple Music subscription service
, 66
Apple Watch
, 41
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
, 121, 171
AT&T
, 61, 63, 107, 182, 183, 185
Automation and jobs
, 168–170
Azure
, 68, 105
Baidu
, 87
Barclays
, 85
Basic income
, 207–208
Bell Atlantic
, 79
Belt and Road
, 92
Berners-Lee, Tim
, 1, 175
Big Data Analytics
, 4, 5, 8, 9, 14, 28, 33, 57, 66, 71, 82, 83, 101
Big Five
, 66, 74
Big Tech
, 65–76
Bing
, 3
Bio-chip
, 99
Bio-hacking firm BioNyfiken
, 99
Bitcoin
, 191
Blackberry
, 27
Body cameras
, 147
“Bro” culture
, 134
Cambridge Analytica
, 140
Capital One
, 71
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
, 20, 43, 71, 84
Children
, 114–115
China
, 86–96
China, American companies in
, 91
China Mobile
, 89
China Telecom
, 89, 91
China Unicom
, 89
Chinese historical imaginary
, 92
Chrome
, 3
CIA. See The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Cisco
, 22, 45, 80
Citizenship
, 194–195
Climate change
, 176
Cloud Computing
, 4, 5, 6, 9, 14, 16–28, 24, 68, 70, 82, 83, 133
Code.org
, 69
Cold War
, 7
Coltan mines
, 74
Commercial Internet, origins
, 59–64
Commercialism
and commodification
, 132
and concentration
, 130–141
Commodified self
, 102
Commodify
, 100–106
Convergence, power and peril of
, 51–55
Criminal hacking
, 159
Cryptocurrency
, 191
Cultural studies
, 5
Cyber-technologies
, 121
Cyber warfare
, 141–148
Dark Web
, 3–4
Dataism
, 121
Deep Web
, 3–4
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
, 59
Defense of Marriage Act
, 180
Demography
, 100–106
Digital communication networks
, 60
Digital computer-to-computer communication systems
, 61
Digital positivism
, 30
Digital world
, 3
Drones
, 147
DuoSkin
, 97
E-commerce business
, 70
Edge Computing
, 25
Electoral College victory
, 35
Electronic communication
, 2
Emergency medical services
, 147
Environmental impact
, 148–156
Environmental Protection Agency
, 176
E-pollution
, 199–201
Ericsson
, 27
European Union
, 195
E-waste
, 148
Facebook
, 3, 5, 18, 21, 27, 44, 73, 76, 78, 111, 132
Fake news
, 139
Federal Communications Commission
, 61
Feudalism
, 15
Firefox
, 3
Fire services
, 147
5G wireless
, 88, 89
Fiverr
, 113–114
Fortune (magazine)
, 109
Foxconn
, 75
Frankenstein (Shelley, Mary)
, 124
Gartner
, 30, 169
GE Capital
, 77
General Electric (GE)
, 45, 48, 49, 71, 86, 93, 124
Gig economy
, 111
Global Positioning System (GPS)
, 147
Gmail
, 3, 18, 67, 69
Google
, 2, 5, 6, 11, 18, 21, 27, 28, 44, 68, 69, 76, 85, 111, 132, 196
Google News
, 67
GPS. See Global Positioning System (GPS)
Great Depression
, 182
Hewlett-Packard
, 78, 80
Hollywood
, 88
Homeland and border security
, 147
HSBC
, 85
Huawei
, 89
Hybrid Cloud
, 24
IBM
, 27, 45, 61, 79, 90
iCloud
, 3, 18, 66
Information Management: A Proposal (Berners-Lee, Tim)
, 1
Instagram
, 3, 73
International Monetary Fund
, 34
International Telecommunication Union
, 63
Internet-based devices
, 9
Internet communication
, 1–2
Internet-enabled consumer devices
, 50
Internet of hackable things
, 156–167
Internet of Things
, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14, 39–51
Inter-networking
, 60
iPhone
, 74
Iron Triangle
, 75
iTunes
, 134
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
, 83
LG
, 162
Lloyds Bank
, 85
Lyft
, 112–113
Mechanical Turk
, 111
Media Lab
, 98
Metaphor
, 115–117
Microsoft
, 5, 18, 22, 27, 44, 69, 107, 110, 132
Militarism
, 197–199
Monbiot, George
, 39
Myth
, 117–120
National Association of Broadcasters
, 131
National Science Foundation (NSF)
, 60
National Security Agency (NSA)
, 20, 43, 84, 145
Network Neutrality
, 186
New Silk Road
, 92
New Yorker (magazine)
, 2, 17
New York Times
, 178
Next Internet
, 58, 64, 127
Next Internet, government embraces the
, 82–85
Nixon Administration
, 176
Nokia
, 27
Nordstrom Rack store
, 30
Nortel
, 27
O2
, 85
Oracle
, 80
Origin of Species
, 32
Panoptic sort
, 104
Parkhill, Douglas
, 209–210
Patriot Act
, 22
Pay-for-storage service
, 66
Pinterest
, 71
Playbour
, 108
Political economy
, 5
Post-internet world
Big Five
, 193–195
control e-pollution
, 199–201
despair and disruption
, 175–177
historical imagination
, 181–187
human right, basic income
, 204–208
impossible dreams
, 180–181
public utility in communication
, 208–212
regulate commercialism
, 195–197
resist militarism
, 197–199
restore privacy
, 202–204
revenge of analog
, 177–180
Post-Internet world
, 2
Precision agriculture
, 31
Privacy
, 156–167, 202–204
Private Cloud
, 23
Public Cloud
, 23, 66
Public utility model
, 13–14, 186–187, 208–212
QQ
, 88
Quantified self
, 101
Quine, Willard Van Orman
, 4
Rackspace
, 28
Reclaiming Conversation (Turkle, Sherry)
, 179
The Revenge of Analog (Sax, David)
, 178
Robot
, 126–127
Royal Bank of Scotland
, 85
Safari
, 3
Salesforce.com
, 8, 23, 27
Samsung
, 74, 162
Siemens
, 27
Silicon Valley
, 2, 27, 88, 121
Singularity
, 120–121
Sky
, 85
Smart cities
, 32
Snapchat
, 3, 107
Snowden, Edward
, 31
Social media
, 3
Social movements
, 187–191
Society and technology
, 15–16
Solutionism
, 36
Sony
, 162
Sublime
, 126
Surveillance
, 156–167
Surveillance capitalism
, 161
Surveillance state
, 161
TCP/IP Internet standard
, 63
Tech aristocracy
, 110
Technology
and power
, 57–58
and society
, 15–16
Tencent
, 88
To the Cloud
, 4
Twitter
, 3, 80, 107
Uber
, 112
Ubiquitous computing
, 55–56
United States Cyber Command
, 3
United States Postal Service
, 181, 186
Uptime Legal Systems
, 23
Verizon
, 53, 79
Verizon’s Yahoo
, 3
Videotex
, 26
Vodafone
, 85
Wanda Group
, 89
Washington Post (newspaper)
, 72
Watson
, 90
Wearable sensors
, 147
Web of problems
, 6
Web-Pay
, 76
WeChat
, 88
WhatsApp
, 73, 185
Wi-Fi-enabled devices
, 13
Wi-Fi-enabled thermostats
, 9
Wi-Fi systems
, 46
WikiLeaks data
, 31
Wikipedia
, 87
Williams, Raymond
, 5
Wired (magazine)
, 29, 137
Worker commodity
, 106–114
World Economic Forum
, 27
World Trade Organization
, 94
World Wide Web
, 1
Yahoo
, 79
YouTube
, 67