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Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon...

Wie YouTube das Weltbild formt: ein exklusiver Investigativ-Bericht. Der Aufstieg der Video-Plattform zur globalen Supermacht. Die Macht des YouTube-Algorithmus über den Alltag seiner Nutzerinnen. YouTube ist weit mehr als eine Video-Plattform: Mit mehr als zwei Milliarden User*innen und 500 Stunden Video-Uploads pro Minute ist die Google-Tochter die mächtigste Bildmaschine aller Zeiten. Der YouTube-Algorithmus entscheidet, wie wir die Welt sehen.

This audiobook asks us to reconsider "whose global village" we are shaping with the digital technology revolution today. Sharing stories of collaboration with Native Americans in California and New Mexico, revolutionaries in Egypt, communities in rural India, and others across the world, Ramesh Srinivasan urges us to reimagine what the Internet, mobile phones, or social media platforms may look like when considered from the perspective of diverse cultures.

When Ted Turner started out in business, he owned a small billboard company in rural Georgia. Over the decades, he built a multi-billion empire that included CNN, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), MGM studios, and the Atlanta Braves. Risk-taking, careful planning, and steely determination are the hallmarks of this brash, outspoken, and wildly successful media mogul. On the other side of the world, his counterpart—Australian-born Rupert Murdoch—began with one small newspaper and parlayed it into more than 100 newspapers and magazines around the globe.