Detail Book review: Peter Kivy, Antithetical Arts: On The Ancient Quarrel Between Literature and Music, Clarendon Press: Oxford and New York; 2009; 275 pp.: £27.50   Oleh:  Negus, Keith Jenis: Article from Article Dalam koleksi: European Journal of Communication vol. 25 no. 3 (2010), page 293-296. Topik: Literature; Music; Arts Fulltext: 293.full.pdf (78.45KB) Isi artikel In 2009, Amazon cancelled from some customers’ Kindles a copy of 1984 for which it did not have the copyright. The incident made headlines because of the extraordinary irony of the cancelled book being George Orwell’s 1984, no less. Facing a class action (and a storm of bad publicity) it quickly backpedalled, paid the legal fees of the student who had sparked the rebellion and promised not to do it again. Unfortunately, e-reader technology also presents significant new threats to citizens’ privacy. E-readers possess the ability to report back substantial information about their users’ reading habits and locations to the corporations that sell them. And yet none of the major e-reader manufacturers have explained to consumers what data are being collected about them and why. In the end, Keen’s and Auletta’s books are useful as models of two opposite cultural positions, those labelled by Umberto Eco as the ‘apocalyptic’ and the ‘integrated’ intellectuals. Despite this, neither one tackles the greatest issues of the day, that is the role of the Internet in the extinction of privacy and the reinforcement of corporations’ dominance over our daily lives. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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