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A broad-based expose of the ramifications of the increasingly blurry boundary between our private and public selves...Essential reading for anyone with a social media and networking service account. -- Library Journal Andrews investigates the myriad ways in which social networking is unpoliced (or over-policed, in some cases), and proposes a constitution for the digital age...This book will make readers rethink their online lives, and Andrews' Constitution is a great start to an important conversation. -- Publishers Weekly Andrews, legal scholar and expert on social media, examines the concept of social network as a nation in need of a constitution that protects the rights of its citizens...A fascinating look at social media and a valuable resource for Internet users to protect personal data. -- Booklist Informative. -- New York Times Authoritative, important reading for policymakers and an unnerving reminder that anything you post can and will be used against you. -- Kirkus Reviews Lori Andrews is not known for writing in the horror genre, but this nonfiction work has a frightening message. Bernadette Dunne expertly delivers a chilling view of the dangers of social media and the importance of developing a 'constitution for the Web.' While the text's data charts may be easier to process with a visual copy, there's no better way to experience the rest of the material than to hear Dunne read it aloud. She infuses a tone of intrigue without straying from the seriousness of the content. The listener may feel violated more than once, but it will be difficult to press the stop button. -- AudioFile This pathbreaking book is fascinating, frightening, and essential reading. It demonstrates how much of what we treasure in our lives is unwittingly being surrendered as we fall into the spiderweb of social networks, a disaster in the making that requires a thoughtful but immediate legislative response. -- Scott Turow, New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent

Authoritative, important reading for policymakers and an unnerving reminder that anything you post can and will be used against you. -- Kirkus Reviews Andrews, legal scholar and expert on social media, examines the concept of social network as a nation in need of a constitution that protects the rights of its citizens...A fascinating look at social media and a valuable resource for Internet users to protect personal data. -- Booklist A broad-based expos of the ramifications of the increasingly blurry boundary between our private and public selves...Essential reading for anyone with a social media and networking service account. -- Library Journal Andrews investigates the myriad ways in which social networking is unpoliced (or over-policed, in some cases), and proposes a constitution for the digital age...This book will make readers rethink their online lives, and Andrews' Constitution is a great start to an important conversation. -- Publishers Weekly Informative. -- New York Times Lori Andrews is not known for writing in the horror genre, but this nonfiction work has a frightening message. Bernadette Dunne expertly delivers a chilling view of the dangers of social media and the importance of developing a 'constitution for the Web.' While the text's data charts may be easier to process with a visual copy, there's no better way to experience the rest of the material than to hear Dunne read it aloud. She infuses a tone of intrigue without straying from the seriousness of the content. The listener may feel violated more than once, but it will be difficult to press the stop button. -- AudioFile This pathbreaking book is fascinating, frightening, and essential reading. It demonstrates how much of what we treasure in our lives is unwittingly being surrendered as we fall into the spiderweb of social networks, a disaster in the making that requires a thoughtful but immediate legislative response. -- Scott Turow, New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent

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Lori Andrews is a law professor and the director of the Institute for Science, Law, and Technology at Illinois Institute of Technology. She has served as a regular advisor to the US government on ethical issues regarding new technologies and was the chair of the federal committee on ethical and legal issues concerning the Human Genome Project. Bernadette Dunne is the winner of more than a dozen AudioFile Earphones Awards and has twice been nominated for the prestigious Audie Award. She studied at the Royal National Theatre in London and the Studio Theater in Washington, DC, and has appeared at the Kennedy Center and off Broadway.

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