The digital frontier : infrastructures of control on the global web

著者

    • Kumar, Sangeet

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The digital frontier : infrastructures of control on the global web

Sangeet Kumar

(Framing the global / Hilary E. Kahn and Deborah Piston-Hatlen, series editors)

Indiana University Press, c2021

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-244) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The global web and its digital ecosystem can be seen as tools of emancipation, communication, and spreading knowledge or as means of control, fueled by capitalism, surveillance, and geopolitics. The Digital Frontier interrogates the world wide web and the digital ecosystem it has spawned to reveal how their conventions, protocols, standards, and algorithmic regulations represent a novel form of global power. Sangeet Kumar shows the operation of this power through the web's "infrastructures of control" visible at sites where the universalizing imperatives of the web run up against local values, norms, and cultures. These include how the idea of the "global common good" is used as a ruse by digital oligopolies to expand their private enclosures, how seemingly collaborative spaces can simultaneously be exclusionary as they regulate legitimate knowledge, how selfhood is being redefined online along Eurocentric ideals, and how the web's political challenge is felt differentially by sovereign nation states. In analyzing this new modality of cultural power in the global digital ecosystem, The Digital Frontier is an important read for scholars, activists, academics and students inspired by the utopian dream of a truly representative global digital network.

目次

Preface Acknowledgments 1. Infrastructures of Control 2. Frontier 3. Knowledge 4. Selfhood 5. Sovereignty Conclusion Bibliography Index

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  • Framing the global

    Hilary E. Kahn and Deborah Piston-Hatlen, series editors

    Indiana University Press

詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BC1561996X
  • ISBN
    • 9780253056474
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Bloomington
  • ページ数/冊数
    xv, 255 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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