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The New Knowledge - Blayne Haggart, Natasha Tusikov

The New Knowledge

Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power
Buch | Hardcover
348 Seiten
2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6087-9 (ISBN)
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This book explores how the increasing importance of the control over knowledge affects everything from innovation, economic growth, and creative expression to personal freedom and privacy, and offers suggestions for a more humane path forward.
From the global geopolitical arena to the smart city, control over knowledge—particularly over data and intellectual property—has become a key battleground for the exercise of economic and political power. For companies and governments alike, control over knowledge—what scholar Susan Strange calls the knowledge structure—has become a goal unto itself.

The rising dominance of the knowledge structure is leading to a massive redistribution of power, including from individuals to companies and states. Strong intellectual property rights have concentrated economic benefits in a smaller number of hands, while the “internet of things” is reshaping basic notions of property, ownership, and control. In the scramble to create and control data and intellectual property, governments and companies alike are engaging in ever-more surveillance.

The New Knowledge is a guide to and analysis of these changes, and of the emerging phenomenon of the knowledge-driven society. It highlights how the pursuit of the control over knowledge has become its own ideology, with its own set of experts drawn from those with the ability to collect and manipulate digital data. Haggart and Tusikov propose a workable path forward—knowledge decommodification—to ensure that our new knowledge is not treated simply as a commodity to be bought and sold, but as a way to meet the needs of the individuals and communities that create this knowledge in the first place.

Blayne Haggart is an associate professor of political science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform (2014) and co-editor of two volumes on the political economy of internet governance and knowledge governance, in addition to several journal articles on these subjects. Natasha Tusikov is an associate professor in the Department of Social Science at York University in Toronto and a research fellow with the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech Lab), School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. Her research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation. She is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (2017). She is a co-editor of Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century (2019) and co-editor of Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State? (2021). Her research has also been published in Surveillance & Society and Internet Policy Review.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I: Understanding the knowledge-driven society

Chapter 1: Defining knowledge: The eight principles

Chapter 2: New policy challenges, new strategies

Part II: Exploring the knowledge-driven society

Chapter 3: Intellectual property and the economics of control

Chapter 4: Demystifying Data

Chapter 5: Ideology, Dataism and the New Experts

Chapter 6: Power, Data and the Private Sector

Chapter 7: Property and control: Who owns the Internet of Things?

Chapter 8: The Data-Driven State

Chapter 9: Governing Data

Conclusion: Thinking Beyond the Market

References

Notes

Index

About the Authors

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Digital Technologies and Global Politics
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 237 mm
Gewicht 662 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-5381-6087-0 / 1538160870
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-6087-9 / 9781538160879
Zustand Neuware
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