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b"Join us for a conversation between Nicole Aschoff and Rob Larson on how Big Tech and its philosopher kings are profiting off the coronavirus crisis, why that should make you angry, and what we can do about it.\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nWith the necessity of social distancing forcing more and more of our lives to be lived through our screens, technology has begun seeping even deeper into the crevices of our social fabric. With everything from elementary school classes to routine doctor\\u2019s visits being mediated by various apps, smart phones, and computers, Silicon Valley is poised to be more profitable\\u2014and more powerful as a political force\\u2014than ever before.\\n\\nTales of Amazon\\u2019s record profits, and Bill Gates\\u2019s boundless generosity are presented by the media as the silver-linings we can all believe in amidst the endless torrent of pandemic related bad news. And yet signs of the tech related scandals-to-come are already all around us\\u2014Elon Musk\\u2019s move to re-open his smart-car factories and stories of Zoom\\u2019s predatory data hoovering practices being just two among many. \\n\\nJoin authors, activists, and radicals Rob Larson and Nicole Aschoff as they discuss why we should resist swallowing the tech industry\\u2019s puff, spin, and outright lies, and whether we use their own platforms against them to build digital socialism. \\n\\nRob Larson is a professor of economics at Tacoma Community College and author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley, and Capitalism vs. Freedom. He writes for Jacobin, In These Times, Current Affairs and Dollars & Sense. \\n\\nNicole Aschoff is a writer, editor, and sociologist. She is the author of The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age and The New Prophets of Capital, an editor-at-large at Jacobin magazine, and managing editor of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Nation, Dissent, and Al Jazeera, among many other places, and she contributes regularly to podcasts and radio shows. \\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------- \\n\\nOrder a copy of Nicole Aschoff's book The Smartphone Society: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9780807061688\\nOrder a Copy of Nicole Aschoff's book, The New Prophets of Capital: https://bookshop.org/a/1039/9781781688106\\nOrder a copy of Rob Larson's book, Bit Tyrants: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1447-bit-tyrants\\nOrder a copy of Rob Larson's book Capitalism Vs. Freedom: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/capitalism-freedom\\n\\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/LBSotsDgSts\\n\\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\\n\\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks"