Digital dilemmas : power, resistance, and the Internet / M.I. Franklin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franklin, Marianne, 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Political aspects.

Internet.

Internet governance.

Online social networks--Political aspects.

Online social networks.

Communication in politics--Technological innovations.

Communication in politics.

Political participation--Technological innovations.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]

Summary:

This study presents an ethnographic, mixed method approach to understanding the dynamics of power and resistance as they are played out around the future of the internet. The text looks at the way that publics, governments, and multilateral institutions are being redefined and reinvented in digital settings that are ubiquitous and yet controlled by a relative few. This is done through three case studies that get at the way that computer-mediated power relations play out 'on the ground' through a mixture of overlapping online and offline activity, at personal, community, and transnational levels.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Chapter One. Digital Dilemmas?

Chapter Two. Paradigm Resets: Real-Life & Virtual Reconnections

Chapter Three. Who Rules in the 'Internet Galaxy'? Battle of the Browsers and Beyond

Chapter Four. Can the Subaltern Speak in Cyberspace? Homelessness and the Internet

Chapter Five. Who Should Control the Internet? Emerging Publics and Human Rights

Chapter Six. Paradigm Reboot: Decolonizing Futures

Notes

Literature List

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-025273-1

OCLC:

861559404