Julia Angwin

Author of Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance

3 Works 272 Members 19 Reviews

About the Author

Julia Angwin is the author of Stealing MySpace and an award-winning investigative journalist for the independent news organization ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she was on the team of reporters awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for coverage show more of corporate corruption and led a team covering online privacy that was a finalist for a 2012 Pulitzer Prize. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children. show less

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Works by Julia Angwin

Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (2009) 52 copies, 2 reviews

What They Know, The Business of Tracking You on the Internet 1 copy

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Short biography: Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist at the independent news organization ProPublica.

From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a Finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010. Her book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, was published by Times Books in 2014.

In 2003, she was on a team of reporters at The Wall Street Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. She is also the author of “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, March 2009).

She earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University.

http://juliaangwin.com/about/

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Dragnet Nation: A quest for privacy, security and… by Julia ANGWIN

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EuniceGomes | 16 other reviews | Apr 1, 2023 |

Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and… by Julia Angwin

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wordloversf | 16 other reviews | Aug 14, 2021 |

Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most… by Julia Angwin

This is a dense book that probably won't encourage reluctant readers, but would serve an advanced reader well in providing information for research assignments.

This book can be featured in the library as a source for research papers/projects along with other books that cover ethically questionable business practices in the early 2000's.

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MagLuCliff | 1 other review | Apr 15, 2016 |

Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and… by Julia Angwin

Good survey of what threatens privacy, and an exploration of ways to reclaim it.

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mrklingon | 16 other reviews | Jan 2, 2015 |

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