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12019-12-11T09:40:47-08:00Elizabeth Burow-Flak4f9877ad9886eb04a10ae8ec4926f06e5b50fc352627917plain2020-05-11T04:57:52-07:00Elizabeth Burow-Flak4f9877ad9886eb04a10ae8ec4926f06e5b50fc35Infomocracy (2016), the first novel in Malka Older's Centennial Cycle, has struck readers as uncannily prescient in its exploration of information and elections in a world where “microdemocracies” with business, policy, or geographical focus have replaced traditional ideas of nations. Amid promotion by "centenals" of voters, parties such as Heritage, Sony-Mitsubishi, 1China, the law-and-order Secure Nation, the anti-regulation Liberty, and the mostly virtuous party without a leader, Policy 1st, compete for Supermajority status in a near-future in which wars and unequal access to resources seem like a thing of the past. But more than the parties themselves, Information, a Google-like entity that provides access to digital information and seeks, Sisyphus-like, to protect it from disinformation, takes center stage as it nearly fails to administrate the third decennial election in the new world order.
12017-11-15T04:01:00-08:00Elizabeth Burow-Flak4f9877ad9886eb04a10ae8ec4926f06e5b50fc35The Immersive Worlds ProjectElizabeth Burow-Flak196A digital anthology from the New Literacies, Technologies, and Cultures of Writing classes at Valparaiso Universityplain2022-05-26T14:22:19-07:00Elizabeth Burow-Flak4f9877ad9886eb04a10ae8ec4926f06e5b50fc35