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The digital era. 2, Political economy revisited / edited by Jean-Pierre Chamoux.
Lippincott Library HC59.3 .D54 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Information systems, web and pervasive computing series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic history--21st century.
- Economic history.
- Information technology--Economic aspects.
- Information technology.
- Big data--Economic aspects.
- Big data.
- Physical Description:
- xxxviii, 201 pages ; 25 cm.
- Other Title:
- Political economy revisited
- Place of Publication:
- London : ISTE Ltd ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019.
- Contents:
- Part 1 A Disruptive Economy p. 1
- Introduction to Part 1 p. 3 / Jean-Pierre Chamoux
- Chapter 1 Companies: the Great Transformation p. 7 / Godefroy Dang N'Guyen
- Information: the raw material of digital technology p. 10
- The causes of disruption and their limits p. 14
- The business philosophy of digital technology p. 15
- Moving upmarket and buybacks p. 16
- Chapter 2 Media: Innovation, Self-production, Creativity p. 23 / Jean-Paul Simon
- User-generated content: scaling up p. 26
- Books, authors and communities p. 30
- Cinema and video: creation, streaming and parodies p. 35
- Do it yourself with music: new creativity? p. 39
- Press and information: dialogue with readers or free work? p. 40
- Video games: co-innovators? p. 43
- Conclusion: creativity, but a limited model p. 45
- Chapter 3 New Intermediaries: Extra-territorial Platforms p. 55 / Stéphane Grumbach
- What has changed? p. 57
- Intermediation p. 58
- Platform economics p. 60
- Laws of the digital economy p. 63
- Going towards a new management of resources p. 69
- Building political legitimacy p. 71
- Part 2 New Perspectives p. 77
- Introduction to Part 2 p. 79 / Jean-Pierre Chamoux
- Chapter 4 The Collaborative Economy: What Are We Talking About? p. 81 / Godefroy Dang N'Guyen
- Numerous examples p. 83
- Commercial versus collaborative peer-to-peer p. 85
- Peer-to-peer trading, the intermediation's triumph p. 87
- How is collaborative peer-to-peer actually organized? p. 91
- Are commons manageable? p. 93
- Looking at the future of collaborative peer-to-peer p. 96
- Chapter 5 Towards a Post-industrial iconomy p. 101 / Michel Volle
- Summary of previous times p. 103
- Real and imagined digital influence p. 104
- Can an intelligence be artificial? p. 109
- Distinguishing power from intelligence p. 113
- In summary: towards the iconomy? p. 115
- Chapter 6 The Chips Industry: Moore and Rock's Laws p. 125 / Gérard Dréan
- Some words about technique: where do we stand today? p. 127
- High-tech production p. 128
- An original economy p. 129
- Rock's law leads to concentration p. 130
- De-integration, specialization and reconfiguration p. 132
- How to stay in the lead pack? p. 133
- Chapter 7 Measuring and Compiling Wealth p. 137 / Jean-Pierre Chamoux
- National accounting and gross revenue p. 140
- Consequences of post-industrial society p. 145
- How can the digital economy be better described? p. 150
- Elements for a summary p. 154
- Appendix A Microelectronics: a typically multinational sector p. 158
- Appendix B Trade, currencies and digital disruption p. 161.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1786301911
- 9781786301918
- OCLC:
- 1023080440
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