Although I didn’t read it yet, I am under the impression that the book will have (n)one impact on the discussion. Still Markus Beckedahl states, that his texts would fill the gap of books able to explain net politics and its movement to the elder generation in plain German.
I only recognize that there are already a lot of books trying to inform or guide their readers. However, the Webbed World of Wonders could neither be explained in that way by Lobo, Schirrmacher, Gaycken, Clarke, Kurz or Rieger (to name just a few). They were either too scientific, populist, foreign or wrong – at least from my point of view and (yes!) I read their stuff.
Judging from its table of content, “Die Digitale Gesellschaft” (the digital society) will provide a general overview of the topic. Lucky readers will be provided with an update on their web-world-view. Others might find themselves spending money on another piece of net propaganda. By the way: against their own beliefs, the authors published their book via a well known commercial publisher, who equipped it with DRM. Even though this is understandable from a marketing point of view, it is seen by many commenters at netzpolitic.org as political bigoted.
I will fed my brain with its content once I can squeeze it in my schedule – probably somewhere between policing, politics and public attitudes towards sentencing. Let’s hope it won't be a disappointment.
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