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

By: Franklin, Marianne, 1959-Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]Copyright date: 2013Description: 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199982714Subject(s): Internet -- Political aspects | Internet governance | Online social networks -- Political aspects | Communication in politics -- Technological innovations | Political participation -- Technological innovationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Digital dilemmas : power, resistance, and the Internet.DDC classification: 302.23/1 LOC classification: HM851 | .F723 2013Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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