Against the Machine: How the Web Is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- And Why It Matters

by Lee Siegel

Book Overview

From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his "drive-by brilliance" and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as "one of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued critics" comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about the most consequential cultural development of our time: the Internet. Of course the Internet is not one thing or another; if anything, its boosters claim, the Web is everything at once. It's become...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385522665
• ISBN13: 9780385522663
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"