New Knowledge (eBook)

Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power

Blayne Haggart, Natasha Tusikov (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
336 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6088-6 (ISBN)

Infos

From the global geopolitical arena to the smart city, control over knowledgeparticularly over data and intellectual propertyhas become a key battleground for the exercise of economic and political power. For companies and governments alike, control over knowledgewhat scholar Susan Strange calls the knowledge structurehas 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 forwardknowledge decommodificationto 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.7.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Digital Technologies and Global Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Algorithmic Decision Making • algorithms • Data • data decommodification • data governance • dataism • data justice • digital economic nationalism • Digital Knowledge • Digital privacy • freedom of knowledge • Global politics • Intellectual Property • International Political Economy • Internet • knowledge feudalism • knowledge governance • privacy
• ISBN-10: 1-5381-6088-9 / 1538160889
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5381-6088-6 / 9781538160886