Title
Digital dilemmas : power, resistance, and the Internet / M.I. Franklin.
ISBN
9780199982707
9780199982691
9780199982714 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
HM851 .F723 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
302.23/1
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Machine generated contents note:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter One. Digital Dilemmas?
Chapter Two. Paradigm Resets: Real-Life & Virtual Reconnections
Chapter Three. Who Rules in the 'Internet Galaxy'? Battle of the Browsers and Beyond
Chapter Four. Can the Subaltern Speak in Cyberspace? Homelessness and the Internet
Chapter Five. Who Should Control the Internet? Emerging Publics and Human Rights
Chapter Six. Paradigm Reboot: Decolonizing Futures
Notes
Literature List
Index.
