Hello colleagues! Wanted to share details below for a launch event <https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMscO-oqDgjEtSd7GfFKT7mWdv-bRJaM77V> the Shorenstein Center is hosting today at 5 p.m. EST for a new book I'm publishing tomorrow, *Terms of Disservice: How Silicon Valley is Destructive by Design <https://www.brookings.edu/book/terms-of-disservice/>*. I’m thrilled that Nancy Gibbs, Robby Mook, and Mark Scott will join the event for a conversation about big tech and the future of the internet. As the COVID-19 pandemic and recent protests have brought to light, technology plays a central role that we can't ignore in these critical issues. Please let me know if you have any questions. I hope that you can join us! All the best, -Dipayan <><><><><><><><><> *Dipayan Ghosh, Ph.D.* Digital Platforms & Democracy Project | Harvard Kennedy School dir: (617) 496-0337 | cell: (860) 933-6225 --- If graphics do not display, view this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/hks/terms-of-disservice?e=6d3b0bb9c0> <https://shorensteincenter.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30699762a3826bbf132818652&id=8738c4768c&e=6d3b0bb9c0> *Terms of Disservice - Book Launch Event* <https://shorensteincenter.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30699762a3826bbf132818652&id=6d477fd017&e=6d3b0bb9c0> *Monday, June 15, 2020 | 5:00 pm ET* Register Here <https://shorensteincenter.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30699762a3826bbf132818652&id=735f90c4c5&e=6d3b0bb9c0> Tomorrow, June 15, at 5:00 p.m., the Shorenstein Center will host an *online book launch for Terms of Disservice*, authored by senior fellow and co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project, *Dipayan Ghosh*. The event will feature Shorenstein Center director *Nancy Gibbs*, former Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign manager and HKS Defending Digital Democracy program director *Robby Mook*, and *Politico* chief technology correspondent *Mark Scott. *They will discuss the structure of the modern digital economy and its interface with social issues in America today. Ghosh contends that the business model underlying the consumer internet sector implicates our welfare from economic, political, and social perspectives. *T* <https://shorensteincenter.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30699762a3826bbf132818652&id=46f7bd679d&e=6d3b0bb9c0>*erms of Disservice <https://shorensteincenter.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30699762a3826bbf132818652&id=854b30df9e&e=6d3b0bb9c0>*(Brookings Institution Press) <https://shorensteincenter.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=30699762a3826bbf132818652&id=988c032f3f&e=6d3b0bb9c0> attempts to chart out a path forward for a new digital social contract to establish better economic equity. Key findings in *Terms of Disservice* include: - *"The exploitative rake of data and attention on the path to natural monopoly"*: The dominant internet firms deal in a novel currency with consumers based on data and attention -- and through it have become natural monopolies. - *"The radical commercialization of decisionmaking"*: Personal data are collected at a mind-blowing rate and level of granularity. Internet firms engage in radical, "commercialized bias" -- and have marketized the segmentation and splicing of society. - *"The dilemma of attending to content policy reform"*: Our immediate attention to matters of content policy reform is misplaced; the more important target in the realm of Big Tech reform is fundamental economic regulation of the industry. Join us tomorrow as Nancy, Robby, Dipayan and Mark discuss and debate! *Registration for this event is required. 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