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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453099403321

Autore

Franklin M.I

Titolo

Digital Dilemmas [[electronic resource] ] : Power, Resistance, and the Internet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013

ISBN

0-19-935785-4

0-19-998271-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (285 p.)

Disciplina

302.23/1

302.231

Soggetti

Communication in politics -- Technological innovations

Internet -- Political aspects

Internet governance

Online social networks -- Political aspects

Political participation -- Technological innovations

Internet - Political aspects

Internet governance - Political aspects

Online social networks - Technological innovations

Communication in politics - Technological innovations

Political participation

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Social Change

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; 1. Digital Dilemmas; 2. Paradigm Resets: Real-Life and Virtual Reconnections; 3. Who Rules in the "Internet Galaxy"? Battle of the Browsers and Beyond; 4. Can the Subaltern Speak in Cyberspace? Homelessness and the Internet; 5. Who Should Control the Internet? Emerging Publics and Human Rights; 6. Paradigm Reboot: Decolonizing Internet Futures;



Notes; Literature List; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Digital Dilemmas looks at the dynamics of power and resistance surrounding the internet. It focuses on how publics, nation-states, and multilateral institutions are being continually reinvented in local and global decision-making domains that are accessed and controlled by a relative few. Importantly it unpacks the ways in which computer-mediated power relations play out as ""on the ground"" and ""cyberspatial"" practices and discourses that collude and collide with one another at the personal, community, and transnational level. Case studies include homelessness and the internet, rights-based