Digital Frontier - Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web

In analyzing the nature of power and control on the web, The Digital Frontier is a great read for readers, scholars, activists and students inspired by the utopian dream of a truly representative global digital network that its founders imagined the web to be.

List of contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Infrastructures of Control

2. Frontier

3. Knowledge

4. Selfhood

5. Sovereignty

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Sangeet Kumar is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Communication Department at Denison University where he teaches and conducts research in the global dimensions of digital media platforms and culture. He also serves as the Director of the International Studies program at Denison. Prior to his academic career he briefly worked as a journalist with a leading Indian daily in New Delhi, India.

Product details

• Authors: Sangeet Kumar
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780253056474
• ISBN: 978-0-253-05647-4
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Framing the Global
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Data communication, networks; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research