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Frontier : Infrastructure
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- Book Title
- Digital Frontier : Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web
- ISBN
- 9780253056474
- Subject Area
- Computers, Political Science, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Digital Frontier : Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Public Policy / Communication Policy, Web / Social Media, Globalization, Popular Culture
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Series
- Framing the Global Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 20.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.3 in
- Number of Pages
- 276 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-10
0253056470
ISBN-13
9780253056474
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17050060941
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
276 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Digital Frontier : Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web
Publication Year
2021
Subject
Public Policy / Communication Policy, Web / Social Media, Globalization, Popular Culture
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Political Science, Social Science
Series
Framing the Global Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
"Finally here is a truly global perspective on digital media technologies. Sangeet Kumar's The Digital Frontier offers a much needed comprehensive analysis of technological infrastructures that undergird the cultural architecture of the Web while making sense of the geopolitical contests played out over these technologies. Kumar's work is original and inspiring: an eye-opener for students and scholars of the internet."--José van Dijck, professor of media and digital society and author of The Culture of Connectivity and The Platform Society , Utrecht University "Sangeet Kumar takes us beyond the lazily Americanist vision of most internet studies. With a deep imagination for fresh critiques and savvy eye for compelling case studies, he reveals the vexed entanglements of freedom and control on the web from the geopolitical vantage point of the global south."--John Durham Peters, author of The Marvelous Clouds and Promiscuous Knowledge , Professor of English, Film and Media Studies at Yale University
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Table Of Content
Preface Acknowledgments 1. Infrastructures of Control 2. Frontier 3. Knowledge 4. Selfhood 5. Sovereignty Conclusion Bibliography Index
Synopsis
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., 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.
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