Virtuality Check: Power Relations and Alternative Strategies in the Information Society

Rating:
Summary: If you read WIRED, read this.
Review: This is an amazing book, and well written too. I came across it lying on a shelf when I had fifteen minutes to spare and began reading it in the centre, but had to go back and start from the beginning.

The book is small and would only take a couple of hours (at most) to read, but you'll likely find yourself stopping and thinking about the last paragraph you read, as I did.

I'll apologize for not summarizing the thesis of the book, but it contains a pile of interesting and arguable topics on the social and political effects of the internet. Simply a pleasure to read.

The type of book that you can keep in your hip pocket and read a couple of pages at a time. Great stuff; the stuff that Wired magazine should be. With an academic title like that, you'd think it was difficult to soak in. The opposite is true.