Information, Power, and Politics (eBook, ePUB)

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

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) comes the potential both for new social and economic equalities and new forms of inequalities. Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates that ICTs can act as an impetus for democratizing information and knowledge, while at the same time new institutional frameworks can limit one's use of and access to strategic information and knowledge. The volume's contributors address ways to strengthen and affirm the socially marginalized as well as suggest how best to incorporate (semi)peripheral countries and regions into the international system. Information, Power, and Politics offers a refreshing and timely perspective on the ever-evolving relationship between information, knowledge, and communication.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739148372
• Artikelnr.: 38226518

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