Dal Yong Jin

Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political Culture (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the networked twenty-first century, digital platforms have significantly influenced capital accumulation and digital culture. Platforms, such as social network sites (e.g. Facebook), search engines (e.g. Google), and smartphones (e.g. iPhone), are increasingly crucial because they function as major digital media intermediaries. Emerging companies in non-Western countries have created unique platforms, controlling their own national markets and competing with Western-based platform empires in the global markets. The reality though is that only a handful of Western countries, primarily the U.S., have dominated the global platform markets, resulting in capital accumulation in the hands of a few mega platform owners. This book contributes to the platform imperialism discourse by mapping out several core areas of platform imperialism, such as intellectual property, the global digital divide, and free labor, focusing on the role of the nation-state alongside transnational capital.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317509059
• Artikelnr.: 42538891

Autorenporträt

Dal Yong Jin is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, Canada

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Part 1: Imperialism is Back 1. Platform Technologies and Political
Culture 2. The Evolution of Imperialism in the 21st Century Part 2:
Platform Politics 3. Construction of Platform Imperialism 4. Platform
Politics in Nation-States 5. Intellectual Properties in the Digital Economy
Part 3: Political Economy of Platform Technologies 6. User Commodities as
Free Labor in the Social Media Era 7. Challenge to the Global Digital
Divide 8. The Future of Platforms