1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910824264503321

Autore

Valente Jonas Chagas Lúcio

Titolo

From online platforms to digital monopolies : technology, information and power / / by Jonas C. L. Valente

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

90-04-46614-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

New scholarship in political economy ; ; Volume 10

Disciplina

338.47004678

Soggetti

Internet industry - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- 1 About Technology -- 1 Artefact and Technological Systems -- 2 Developing Artefacts and Technological Systems -- 3 Society and Technology -- 4 Technology and Society -- 5 Summary: The Technological Regulation Approach -- 6 Values Base to Analyse Technology under Capitalism -- 2 Technology and Capitalist Development -- 1 Technology and the Economic Sphere -- 2 Technology and the Political-Institutional Sphere -- 3 Technology and the Cultural Sphere -- 3 Information and Communication Technologies and Neoliberalism -- 1 Context: The 1970s Crisis, Neoliberalism and ICT S -- 2 Technology and the Economic Sphere: ICT S and Their Impacts on the Economy -- 3 Impacts on Labour Relations -- 4 Impacts on Competition Dynamics -- 4 The Technological Paradigm of Information and Communications Technologies -- 1 Structural Technologies: The Internet -- 2 Infrastructure: High-Speed Data Networks (Broadband) -- 3 Core Input: Microprocessors -- 4 Carrier Branch: Computers -- 5 Emerging Technologies: Big Data, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence -- 5 Digital Platforms -- 1 Definitions -- 2 Characteristics -- 3 Typology of Digital Platforms -- 4 Production Process and Labour Relations -- 5 Competition on Platforms -- 5.1 Business Models -- 5.2 Market Structure -- 5.3 Competitive Strategies -- 6 Digital Monopolies -- 7 Legislation and the Debate on Legal Regulation -- 6 Google -- 1 General Technological Trajectory --



2 Rules -- 3 Ownership, Control and Management Structure -- 4 Production Process -- 5 Competitive Performance -- 6 System Components and Technical Resources -- 6.1 Other Bets -- 7 Dissemination -- 8 Appropriation -- 9 Relationship with the Values Base -- 9.1 Rights Promotion and Guarantees -- Damages and Violation of Rights -- 10 The Technological System's Impact on Society -- 11 Analytical Overview: Google and the Fight For Online Information Control -- 7 Facebook -- 1 General Technological Trajectory -- 2 Rules -- 3 Ownership, Control and Management Structure -- 4 Production Process -- 5 Competitive Performance -- 6 System Components and Technical Resources -- 6.1 Primary Technological System: Facebook -- 6.1.1 Information (Newsfeed and Timeline) -- 6.1.2 Connections (Friends, Groups, Pages and Events) -- 6.1.3 Transactions -- 6.1.4 Platform -- 6.2 Secondary Subsystems -- 7 Dissemination -- 8 Appropriation -- 9 Relationship with the Values Base -- 9.1 Rights, Promotion and Guarantees -- 9.2 Damages and Violation of Rights -- 10 The Technological System's Impact on Society -- 11 Analytical Overview: Facebook and the Fight for Online Information Control -- 8 Final Considerations -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies: Technology, Information and Power Jonas C.L. Valente discusses the rise of platforms as key players in different social activities, from economy to culture and politics. These companies have a daily presence in the lives of the majority of the world population, from social interactions to digital payments and transactions. They are gaining a central role in neoliberal capitalism, shaping contemporary sociability. The book shows how these platforms work and identifies the hidden interests behind the commercial strategies that guide the development of services offered to Internet users. It takes the specific cases of Google and Facebook and presents its historical development, illustrating how these companies turned into major players in our times.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910814225603321

Titolo

Cosmopolitanism : between ideals and reality / / edited by Lorena Cebolla Sanahuja and Francesco Ghia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8624-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 p.)

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Cosmopolitanism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

Cosmopolitanism is the idea of humanity as a single community or polis. Beyond particularities, all human beings (and in some versions of cosmopolitanism certain non-humans) are part of a community, and have responsibilities, rights and the power to decide on a common future. Ideas of cosmopolitan vary from the purely moral to cultural, social, legal, institutional, political, educational and economic cosmopolitanism, or combine some or all of these facets. All of these different perspectives try to establish the basis necessary to create a true cosmopolitanism.This book provides an introducti