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Informationen zum Autor Blayne Haggart is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. His book, Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform (University of Toronto Press, 2014), was chosen as a year-end "must read" by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, called it "an exceptional contribution to our understanding of how copyright laws are made," while Peter Drahos, Professor of Law at the Australian National University, praised its "wonderfully clear prose and conceptual framework.". Klappentext From the global geopolitical arena to the smart city, control over knowledge-particularly over data and intellectual property-has become a key battleground for the exercise of economic and political power. For companies and governments alike, control over knowledge-what scholar Susan Strange calls the knowledge structure-has become a goal unto itself. The rising dominance of the knowledge structure is leading to a massive redistribution of power, including from individuals to companies and states. Strong intellectual property rights have concentrated economic benefits in a smaller number of hands, while the "internet of things" is reshaping basic notions of property, ownership, and control. In the scramble to create and control data and intellectual property, governments and companies alike are engaging in ever-more surveillance. The New Knowledge is a guide to and analysis of these changes, and of the emerging phenomenon of the knowledge-driven society. It highlights how the pursuit of the control over knowledge has become its own ideology, with its own set of experts drawn from those with the ability to collect and manipulate digital data. Haggart and Tusikov propose a workable path forward-knowledge decommodification-to ensure that our new knowledge is not treated simply as a commodity to be bought and sold, but as a way to meet the needs of the individuals and communities that create this knowledge in the first place. Zusammenfassung This book explores how the increasing importance of the control over knowledge affects everything from innovation, economic growth, and creative expression to personal freedom and privacy, and offers suggestions for a more humane path forward. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Understanding the knowledge-driven society Chapter 1: Defining knowledge: The eight principles Chapter 2: New policy challenges, new strategies Part II: Exploring the knowledge-driven society Chapter 3: Intellectual property and the economics of control Chapter 4: Demystifying Data Chapter 5: Ideology, Dataism and the New Experts Chapter 6: Power, Data and the Private Sector Chapter 7: Property and control: Who owns the Internet of Things? Chapter 8: The Data-Driven State Chapter 9: Governing Data Conclusion: Thinking Beyond the Market References Notes Index About the Authors ...
