Resisting Big Tech: The Personalized Is Political

by Niels Niessen

How do smartphones change our experience of walking in a city? How do matching algorithms affect how we find love? And how does ChatGPT alter how we think? Engaging these and other questions, this open access book analyzes the transformation of everyday life in the Big Tech era.

Although movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter would not have happened in the way they did without so-called "social" media platforms, these platforms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350504106
• ISBN13: 9781350504103
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.5"