Lexington Books
Pages: 222
Trim: 6½ x 9½
978-0-7391-4835-8 • Hardback • November 2010 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-0-7391-4837-2 • eBook • November 2010 • $114.00 • (£88.00)
Sarita Albagli is a senior researcher at the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Ministry of Science and Technology. Maria Lucia Maciel is a senior lecturer in the postgraduate political science program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Chapter 1 Information, Power, and Politics: From the South, Beyond the South
Chapter 2 The Representational Economy and the Global Information Policy Regime
Chapter 3 Wikipolitics and the Economy of the Bees: Information, Power, and Politics in a Digital Society
Chapter 4 Information, Knowledge, and Power: From the Point of View of Relations between Politics, Economics, and Language
Chapter 5 The Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism from the Point of View of Amerindian Perspectivism
Chapter 6 Digital Capitalism in Crisis
Chapter 7 Productive Restructuring, Subsumption of Intellectual Labor, and the Contradictory Dynamics of Development
Chapter 8 Knowledge, Information, and Intellectual Property Rights: An Institutionalist Analysis of the Different Governance Modalities
Chapter 9 Digital Democracy: Beyond the Idea of Distributive Justice
This volume presents a penetrating analysis of key contradictions in the nexus of information, knowledge and power within 21st century capitalism. Through their appropriation of digital technologies, forces of resistance may lead to a deepening of democracy or, alternatively, dominant actors may succeed in institutionalising new means of control through their appropriation of the means of communication. The authors offer much needed critical assessments of alternative cultural, social and economic positionings as viewed from the "South."
— Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science