Information, Power, and Politics - Technological and Institutional Mediations

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Sarita Albagli, Sarita/ Maciel Albagli
• Assisted by: Sarita Albagli (Editor), Albagli Sarita (Editor), Maria Lucia Maciel (Editor), Maciel Maria Lucia (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2010
• EAN: 9780739148358
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4835-8
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Critical Media Studies; Critical Media Studies (Hardco; Critical Media Studies; Critical Media Studies (Hardco
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Library & Information Sciences, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Library and information sciences / Museology, Media and society