Latham / Sassen Digital Formations

IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3161-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Latham, Robert

Sassen, Saskia

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction
Digital Formations: Constructing an Object of Study by Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen 1

SPACES OF KNOWLEDGE 35

Recombinant Technology and New Geographies of Association by Jonathan Bach and David Stark 37

Electronic Markets and Activist Networks: The Weight of Social Logics in Digital Formations by Saskia Sassen 54

The New Mobility of Knowledge: Digital Information Systems and Global Flagship Networks by Dieter Ernst 89

NETWORKS OF COOPERATION 115

Cooperative Networks and the Rural-Urban Divide by D. Linda Garcia 117

Networks, Information, and the Rise of the Global Internet by Robert Latham 146

The Political Economy of Open Source Software and Why It Matters by Steven Weber 178

DESIGNS AND INSTITUTIONS 213

Designing Information Resources for Transboundary Conflict Early Warning Networks by Hayward R. Alker 215

Discourse Architecture and Very Large-scale Conversation by Warren Sack 242

Transnational Communication and the European Demos by Lars-Erik Cederman and Peter A. Kraus 283

Information Technology and State Capacity in China by Doug Guthrie 312

List of Contributors 339

Index 341

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Latham is Director of the Social Science Research Council Program on Information Technology and International Cooperation. He is the author of The Liberal Moment. Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her books include The Global City and the forthcoming Denationalization: Territory, Authority, and Rights in a Global Digital Age (both Princeton).