[Air-L] Today at 5pm: Terms of Disservice - Virtual Book Launch Event

[Dipayan Ghosh]

Hello colleagues!

Wanted to share details below for a launch event
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the
Shorenstein Center is hosting today at 5 p.m. EST for a new book I'm
publishing tomorrow, *Terms of Disservice: How Silicon Valley is
Destructive by Design <https://www.brookings.edu/book/terms-of-disservice/>*.
I’m thrilled that Nancy Gibbs, Robby Mook, and Mark Scott will join the
event for a conversation about big tech and the future of the internet. As
the COVID-19 pandemic and recent protests have brought to light, technology
plays a central role that we can't ignore in these critical issues.

Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope that you can join us!


All the best,

-Dipayan

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*Dipayan Ghosh, Ph.D.*

Digital Platforms & Democracy Project  |  Harvard Kennedy School

dir: (617) 496-0337  |  cell: (860) 933-6225



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Tomorrow, June 15, at 5:00 p.m., the Shorenstein Center will host an *online
book launch for Terms of Disservice*, authored by senior fellow and
co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project, *Dipayan Ghosh*.
The event will feature Shorenstein Center director *Nancy Gibbs*, former
Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign manager and HKS Defending Digital Democracy
program director *Robby Mook*, and *Politico* chief technology
correspondent *Mark Scott. *They will discuss the structure of the modern
digital economy and its interface with social issues in America today.

Ghosh contends that the business model underlying the consumer internet
sector implicates our welfare from economic, political, and social
perspectives. *T*
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of Disservice
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attempts
to chart out a path forward for a new digital social contract to establish
better economic equity.

Key findings in *Terms of Disservice* include:

   - *"The exploitative rake of data and attention on the path to natural
   monopoly"*: The dominant internet firms deal in a novel currency with
   consumers based on data and attention -- and through it have become natural
   monopolies.
   - *"The radical commercialization of decisionmaking"*: Personal data are
   collected at a mind-blowing rate and level of granularity. Internet firms
   engage in radical, "commercialized bias" -- and have marketized the
   segmentation and splicing of society.
   - *"The dilemma of attending to content policy reform"*: Our immediate
   attention to matters of content policy reform is misplaced; the more
   important target in the realm of Big Tech reform is fundamental economic
   regulation of the industry.

Join us tomorrow as Nancy, Robby, Dipayan and Mark discuss and debate!

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