Summary
Mary Chayko: Superconnected
Internet, digital media and techno-social life
The author of the study Superconnected is closer to techno-optimists than to pessimists, but none of her positions are the result of scientific arbitrariness or personal bias, but rather the opposite, richly supported by the insights of numerous researchers around the world.
It can be said that one of the greatest contributions of this book is the coverage of topics and Internet-related phenomena, which Chayko deals with the history of the internet and the web, including its dark side, through the "inhabitation" of cyberspace, exchange and surveillance, inequality, identity, the creation of online relationships, whether friendly, sexual or emotional, all the way to techno-social institutions and our fate in the years to come. It's really rare for books like this, especially when it comes to a text that can be relied on by the local reader, that cover so many fundamental topics related to communication technologies, especially mobile phones and the Internet, and our social life.
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