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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814683003321

Titolo

Information, power, and politics : technological and institutional mediations / / edited by Sarita Albagli and Maria Lucia Maciel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, c2010

ISBN

1-283-14573-1

9786613145734

0-7391-4837-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Critical media studies

Altri autori (Persone)

AlbagliSarita

MacielMaria Lucia <1946->

Disciplina

303.48/33

Soggetti

Information society

Digital divide

Information technology - Social aspects

Information technology - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

INFORMATION, POWER, AND POLITICS; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Information, Power, and Politics: From the South, Beyond the South; 2 The Representational Economy and the Global Information Policy Regime; 3 Wikipolitics and the Economy of the Bees: Information, Power, and Politics in a Digital Society; 4 Information, Knowledge, and Power: From the Point of View of Relations between Politics, Economics, and Language; 5 The Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism from the Point of View of Amerindian Perspectivism; 6 Digital Capitalism in Crisis

7 Productive Restructuring, Subsumption of Intellectual Labor, and the Contradictory Dynamics of Development8 Knowledge, Information, and Intellectual Property Rights: An Institutionalist Analysis of the Different Governance Modalities; 9 Digital Democracy: Beyond the Idea of Distributive Justice; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

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.