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Information, power, and politics : technological and institutional mediations / edited by Sarita Albagli and Maria Lucia Maciel.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Critical media studies.
- Critical media studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society.
- Digital divide.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Information technology--Political aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (231 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICT)s comes the potential for new social and economic equalities. However, as Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates, these technologies can also act as an impetus for democratizing information and knowledge.
- Contents:
- INFORMATION, POWER, AND POLITICS; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Information, Power, and Politics: From the South, Beyond the South; 2 The Representational Economy and the Global Information Policy Regime; 3 Wikipolitics and the Economy of the Bees: Information, Power, and Politics in a Digital Society; 4 Information, Knowledge, and Power: From the Point of View of Relations between Politics, Economics, and Language; 5 The Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism from the Point of View of Amerindian Perspectivism; 6 Digital Capitalism in Crisis
- 7 Productive Restructuring, Subsumption of Intellectual Labor, and the Contradictory Dynamics of Development8 Knowledge, Information, and Intellectual Property Rights: An Institutionalist Analysis of the Different Governance Modalities; 9 Digital Democracy: Beyond the Idea of Distributive Justice; Index; About the Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-28449-9
- 1-283-14573-1
- 9786613145734
- 0-7391-4837-0
- OCLC:
- 733040266
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