Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance, and the Internet

Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance, and the Internet
ISBN-10
0199982708
ISBN-13
9780199982707
Series
Digital Dilemmas
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
271
Language
English
Published
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
M.I. Franklin

Description

Digital Dilemmas is a groundbreaking ethnographic, mixed method approach to understanding dynamics of power and resistance as they are played out around the future of the internet. M. I. Franklin looks at the way that publics, governments, and multilateral institutions are being redefined and reinvented in digital settings that are ubiquitous and yet controlled by a relative few. Franklin does this through three original and wide-ranging case studies that get at the way that computer-mediated power relations play out "on the ground" through a mixture of overlapping online and offline activity, at personal, community, and transnational levels. Case studies include online activities around homelessness and street papers in the U.S. and around the world, digital and human rights activism carried out though the United Nations, and the ongoing battle between proprietary and free and open source software proponents. The result is a thought-provoking and seminal work on the way that the new paradigms of power and resistance forged online reshape localized and traditional power structures offline.

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