TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dutton,William H.
TI  - The fifth estate: the power shift of the digital age 
T2  - Oxford studies in digital politics
SN  - 9780190688400
AV  - HM851 .D878 2023
U1  - 302.231 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Internet
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Information society
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Sociology & anthropology
KW  - thema
N1  - This edition also issued in print: 2023; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - In the eighteenth century, the printing press enabled the rise of an independent press - the Fourth Estate - that helped check the power of governments, business, and industry. In similar ways, the internet is enabling the empowerment of a more independent collectivity of networked individuals - the Fifth Estate. Dutton uses estate theory to illuminate the most important power shift of the digital age. He argues that this network power shift is not only enabling greater democratic accountability in politics and governance but is also empowering networked individuals in their everyday life and work
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190688363.001.0001
ER  -