Cloud Policy

“Cloud Policy does an outstanding job of examining how we got where we are. Pipelines, platforms, and data are each examined separately, and the book provides specific recommendations for ensuring a cloud that serves all… This book is well-researched and addresses a crucial issue at an important time.”
—Choice

“Cloud Policy is a landmark contribution to the study of digital governance, infrastructure policy, and democratic theory in the 21st century. Jennifer Holt has written a book that is historically grounded, intellectually ambitious, and normatively committed to the public good. For scholars, policymakers, technologists, and citizens concerned with the future of the Internet, this book provides both a diagnostic toolkit and a conceptual map for imagining a different digital order—one where cloud systems are not merely efficient but equitable, not merely profitable but accountable.”
—International Journal of Communication

“This book is a wake-up call. Digital infrastructures are not neutral… An informed and involved citizenry is needed to push for regulatory reform and stem the tides of surveillance capitalism and digital authoritarianism.”
—Journal of the American Planning Association

Jennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a former Fellow with the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington, DC. She is the author of Empires of Entertainment and the coeditor of the SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy.

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