The silicon jungle a novel of deception, power, and Internet intrigue - Baluja, Shumeet (Princeton University Press, 2011)
Includes bibliographical references
What happens when a naive intern is granted unfettered access to people's most private thoughts and actions? Young Stephen Thorpe lands a coveted internship at Ubatoo, an Internet empire that provides its users with popular online services, from a search engine and shopping to e-mail and social networking. When Stephen's boss asks him to work on a project with the American Coalition for Civil Liberties, Stephen innocently obliges, believing he is mining Ubatoo's vast databases to protect the ever-growing number of people unfairly targeted in the name of national security. But nothing is as it
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Endings; Anklets; Anthropologists in the Midst; Mollycoddle; Touchpoints; Checking In; Working 9 to 4; Predicting the Future and 38 Needles; Contact; Two Geeks in a Pod; An Understatement; Euphoria and Diet Pills; To Better Days; Marathon; The Life and Soul of an Intern; Candid Cameras; Episodes; Liberal Food and Even More Liberal Activism; Subjects; Newsworthy; Patience; Hypergrowth; Little Pink Houses; Truth, Lies, and Algorithms; Negotiations and Herding Cats; The JENNY Discovery; I Dream of JENNY.