- Published: 10 March 2020
- ISBN: 9780807061688
- Imprint: Beacon Press
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 216
- RRP: $55.00
The Smartphone Society
Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age
- Published: 10 March 2020
- ISBN: 9780807061688
- Imprint: Beacon Press
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 216
- RRP: $55.00
“Aschoff’s analysis of our relationship to our phones is relevant and urgent. She gives us enough context to understand our addictions, our willingness to be surveilled and manipulated, and, better yet, the avenues of resistance against the tech titans that increasingly control our time, attention, and futures.” —Cathy O’Neil, author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy and CEO of O’Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing “In The Smartphone Society, Nicole Aschoff gives us fresh insight into how the device and our everyday lives have morphed into one another. She considers the good and the bad, and helps us to understand how the smartphone has reshaped society in innumerable ways. With accessible prose, she looks into selfies and social media, politics and protest, profit and women’s unpaid work. It is a cogent read in the era of the smartphone.” —Rich Ling, Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology, Nanyang Technological University