The Committee, an international cabal of industrialists and media barons, is on the verge of privatizing all information. Dear Diary, an idealistic online Underground, stands in the way of that takeover, using radical politics, classic spycraft, and technology that makes Big Data look like dial-up. Into this secret battle stumbles an unlikely trio: Leila Majnoun, a disillusioned non-profit worker; Leo Crane, an unhinged trustafarian; and Mark Deveraux,...

After the election of Donald Trump as president, people in the United States and across large swaths of Europe, Latin America, and Asia engaged in the most intensive discussion in modern times about falsehoods pronounced by public officials. Fake facts in their various forms have long been present in American life, particularly in its politics, public discourse, and business activities - going back to the time when the country was formed. This book...

"An expert on China's global infrastructure expansion provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks"--

Every era has its merger; every era has its story. For the New Media age it was an even bigger disaster: the AOL-Time Warner deal. At the time AOL and Time Warner were considered a matchless combination of old media content and new media distribution. But very soon after the deal was announced things started to go bad-and then from bad to worse. Less than four years after the deal was announced, every significant figure in the deal -save the politically...

The numbers of documents, e-mails, text messages, websites, photographs, social media posts, and blog articles created daily, in both personal and professional lives, are beyond legion. In the legal world, as a microcosm of larger society, there is heavy focus these days on the discovery of electronically stored materials as information supportive of claims or defenses in a case, or otherwise informative during investigations. Primer for an Evolving...