And thats this months list of nonfiction best sellers according to the chicago tribune. On this labor day, booktv continues until 8 a. M. Tuesday. Today dr. Ezekiel emanuel discusses the American Health care system, and julia england talks about the surveillance state. Then former Supreme Court Justice John Paul stevens on the constitution. Hillary clinton sits down to discuss her book, hard choices, and much more. For a complete schedule, go to booktv. Org. Host and the book is called the peoples mat form platform be taking back power and culture in the digital age. The author is astra taylor who joins us from our new york studio. Ms. Taylor, in this book you write about openness, and you say that new media thinkers have claimed openness as an appropriate utopian ideal for our time and the concept has caught on. Does that apply to the internet as well . Is it open . Guest thats exactly what im asking. It seemed like the internet was going to sort of magically solve all of the problems
Independent documentary film maker, my background is in documentary film making, and i make films about philosophy. So to kind of obscure, educational films. And part of why i was drawn to making those films was because they werent on television, they werent on commercial media channels. And the internet seemed to be something that would usher in this amazing opportunity for independent film makers like me and independent artists and musicians and bloggers to create a kind of open media landscape, to not have to depend on gatekeepers who could say yes or no and control and influence the flow of communication. So the idea is that the internet is open and that, you know, all of our, all of the problems of the old system have gone away. And so i was very interested in this question, and the book is sort of me investigating et. Well, how open is the internet . Is openness enough . And what i come i come to the conclusion that open is kind of a misleading term. It can mean sort of anything
To get what we want. Okay that his choices we will have to accept. We cant do them what we do individually matters on some level but if you look at the big mouse of the American Economy things will only change if they change in a macrosort of way. If we make collective decisions about how policies affect their marketplace. Collective decisions as citizens and not consumers. There are plenty of areas of social life that we dont get to the marketplace Like Health Care or education i feel like culture should be in that litany as well well. So yeah thinking the other marketplace. We are talking today whether not monsters live in our laptops and its a fascinating tale of digital disruption not necessarily one of good and evil. I want to thank our panelists for joining us today Andrew Albanese Senior Writer publisher frank foer the editor of your public astra taylor and oren teicher ceo of the American Booksellers Association but i want to think the Knight Foundation and the miami book fair.
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