Information Politics Liberation and Exploitation in the Digital Society

• Autore principale: Jordan, Tim (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Pluto Press 2015
• Soggetti: Information theory; Sociology; Digital Culture; Social Movements; Political Science; Social and Cultural Theory; Information politics; Technology
• Accesso online: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Riassunto

Conflict over information has become a central part of modern politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Currents of liberation and exploitation course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance, Anonymous, search engines and social media.In Information Politics, Tim Jordan identifies all these issues in relation to a general understanding of the nature of an information politics that emerged with the rise of mass digital cultures and the internet. He locates it within a field of power and rebellion that is populated by many interwoven social and political conflicts including gender, class and ecology.The exploitations both facilitated by, and contested through increases in information flows; the embedding of information technologies in daily life, and the intersection of network and control protocols are all examined.

ISBN

9781783712960;9781783712977

Accesso

Open Access