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9780739148358

Information, Power, and Politics Technological and Institutional Mediations

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    9780739148358

  • ISBN10:

    0739148354

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-11-29
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICTs) comes the potential both for new social and economic equalities and new forms of inequalities. Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates that ICTs can act as an impetus for democratizing information and knowledge, while at the same time new institutional frameworks can limit one's use of and access to strategic information and knowledge. The volume's contributors address ways to strengthen and affirm the socially marginalized as well as suggest how best to incorporate (semi)peripheral countries and regions into the international system. Information, Power, and Politics offers a refreshing and timely perspective on the ever-evolving relationship between information, knowledge, and communication.

Author Biography

Sarita Albagli is senior researcher at the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Ministry of Science and Technology, and senior lecture in the postgraduate Information Science Program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and IBICT. Maria Lucia Maciel is senior lecturer in the postgraduate Information Science Program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and IBICT.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Information, Power, and Politics: From the South, Beyond the Southp. 1
The Representational Economy and the Global Information Policy Regimep. 27
Wikipolitics and the Economy of the Bees: Information, Power, and Politics in a Digital Societyp. 47
Information, Knowledge, and Power: From the Point of View of Relations between Politics, Economics, and Languagep. 79
The Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism from the Point of View of Amerindian Perspectivismp. 103
Digital Capitalism in Crisisp. 133
Productive Restructuring, Subsumption of Intellectual Labor, and the Contradictory Dynamics of Developmentp. 147
Knowledge, Information, and Intellectual Property Rights: An Institutionalist Analysis of the Different Governance Modalitiesp. 169
Digital Democracy: Beyond the Idea of Distributive Justicep. 189
Indexp. 207
About the Contributorsp. 221
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