Information, Power, and Politics

Technological and Institutional Mediations
Herausgeber: Albagli, Sarita; Maciel, Maria Lucia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 533g
• ISBN-13: 9780739148358
• ISBN-10: 0739148354
• Artikelnr.: 32095798

Autorenporträt

Sarita Albagli is a senior researcher at the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Ministry of Science and Technology. Maria Lucia Maciel is a senior lecturer in the postgraduate political science program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Information, Power, and Politics: From the South, Beyond the
South
Chapter 2 The Representational Economy and the Global Information Policy
Regime
Chapter 3 Wikipolitics and the Economy of the Bees: Information, Power, and
Politics in a Digital Society
Chapter 4 Information, Knowledge, and Power: From the Point of View of
Relations between Politics, Economics, and Language
Chapter 5 The Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism from the Point of View of
Amerindian Perspectivism
Chapter 6 Digital Capitalism in Crisis
Chapter 7 Productive Restructuring, Subsumption of Intellectual Labor, and
the Contradictory Dynamics of Development
Chapter 8 Knowledge, Information, and Intellectual Property Rights: An
Institutionalist Analysis of the Different Governance Modalities
Chapter 9 Digital Democracy: Beyond the Idea of Distributive Justice