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Digital dilemmas, power, resistance, and the Internet, M.I. Franklin

Label
Digital dilemmas, power, resistance, and the Internet, M.I. Franklin
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-264) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Digital dilemmas
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
855044304
Responsibility statement
M.I. Franklin
Sub title
power, resistance, and the Internet
Summary
"Digital Dilemmas looks at the dynamics of power and resistance surrounding the Internet. It focuses on how publics, nation-states, and multilateral institutions are being continually reinvented in local and global decision-making domains that are accessed and controlled by a relative few. Importantly it unpacks the ways in which computer-mediated power relations play out as "on the ground" and "cyberspatial" practices and discourses that collude and collide with one another at the personal, community, and transnational level. Case studies include homelessness and the Internet, rights-based advocacy for the online environment at the United Nations, and how the ongoing battle between proprietary and open source software designs affects ordinary people and policy-making. The result is an innovative and groundbreaking critique of the way new paradigms of power and resistance forged online reshape traditional power hierarchies offline, at home and abroad"--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
1. Digital Dilemmas -- 2. Paradigm Resets: Real-Life and Virtual Reconnections -- 3. Who Rules in the 'Internet Galaxy'? Battle of the Browsers and Beyond -- 4. Can the Subaltern Speak in Cyberspace? Homelessness and the Internet -- 5. Who Should Control the Internet? Emerging Publics and Human Rights -- 6. Paradigm Reboot: Decolonizing Futures
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