Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live Audiobook (Free)

International bestselling author and positive internet thinker Jeff Jarvis examines what sort of Internet has changed the way we form communities, create identities, engage in commerce, and live our lives.

A visionary and optimistic thinker examines the strain between personal privacy and publicness that’s transforming how we form areas, create identities, do business, and live our lives.

Thanks to the web, we now live-more and more-in community. More than 750 million people (and fifty percent of about Open public Parts: How Posting in the Digital Age Improves just how We Work and Live all Us citizens) use Facebook, where we talk about a billion instances a day. The collective voice of Twitter echoes immediately 100 million occasions daily, from Tahrir Square towards the Mall of America, on subjects that range between democratic reform to unfolding natural disasters to celebrity gossip. New tools let us reveal our photos, movies, purchases, knowledge, friendships, locations, and lives.

Yet modification brings fear, and many people-nostalgic for a far more homogeneous mass culture and provoked by well-meaning advocates for privacy-despair that the internet and how we share there is making us dumber, crasser, distracted, and susceptible to threats of most kinds. However, not Jeff Jarvis.

With this shibboleth-destroying book, Public Parts argues persuasively and personally that the internet and our new sense of publicness are, in fact, doing the opposite. Jarvis travels back in time to show the amazing parallels of dread and level of resistance that met the arrival of other enhancements such as the camera and the printing press. The internet, he argues, changes business, society, and lifestyle as profoundly as Gutenberg’s invention, moving power from aged institutions to people.

Predicated on extensive interviews, Public Parts introduces us towards the men and women creating a new industry based on sharing. Some of them have grown to be household names-Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Twitter’s Evan Williams. Others may soon be named the industrialists, philosophers, and designers of our future.

Jarvis explores the promising ways in which the web and publicness allow us to collaborate, think that, ways-how we produce and market, buy and sell, organize and govern, train and find out. He also examines the necessity aswell as the limits of privacy in an effort to understand and therefore protect it.

This new and open era has already profoundly disrupted economies, industries, laws, ethics, childhood, and several other facets of our day to day lives. But the alter has just started. The shape of the future is not guaranteed. The amazing fresh equipment of publicness may be used to good ends and poor. The choices-and the responsibilities-lie with us. Jarvis makes an urgent case that the future of the internet-what one technologist phone calls “the eighth continent”-needs as much protection as the physical space we talk about, the environment we breathe, as well as the rights we afford each other. It is an area of the general public, for the public, and by the general public. It needs security and respect from most of us. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated in the wake of the uprisings in the Middle East, “If people all over the world are going to come together every day online and also have a safe and productive experience, we are in need of a shared vision to steer us.” Jeff Jarvis provides that vision and will be that guide.