Buch, Englisch, Band 199/10, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 811 g
Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy
Technology, Information and Power
Buch, Englisch, Band 199/10, 402 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 811 g
Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences / New Scholarship in Political Economy
ISBN: 978-90-04-46601-2
Verlag: Brill
In From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies: Technology, Information and Power Jonas C.L. Valente discusses the rise of platforms as key players in different social activities, from economy to culture and politics. These companies have a daily presence in the lives of the majority of the world population, from social interactions to digital payments and transactions. They are gaining a central role in neoliberal capitalism, shaping contemporary sociability.
The book shows how these platforms work and identifies the hidden interests behind the commercial strategies that guide the development of services offered to Internet users. It takes the specific cases of Google and Facebook and presents its historical development, illustrating how these companies turned into major players in our times.
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Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgments
List of table and figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: About technology
Artefact and technological systems
Developing artefacts and technological systems
Society and technology
Technology and society
Summary: The Technological Regulation approach
Values base to analyse technology under capitalism
Chapter 2: Technology and capitalist development
Technology and the economic sphere
Technology and the political–institutional sphere
Technology and the cultural sphere
Chapter 3: Information and Communication Technologies and neoliberalism
Context: 1970s crisis, neoliberalism and ICTs
Technology and the economic sphere: ICTs and their impacts on the economy
Impacts on labour relations
Impacts on competition dynamics
Chapter 4: The technological paradigm of Information and Communication Technologies
Structural technologies: The internet
Infrastructure: high-speed data networks (broadband)
Core input: microprocessors
Carrier branch: computers
Emerging technologies: Big Data, algorithms and artificial intelligence
Chapter 5: Digital platforms
Definitions
Characteristics
Typology of digital platforms
Production process and labour relations
Competition on platforms
Business models
Market structure
Competitive strategies
Digital monopolies
Legislation and the debate on legal regulation
Chapter 6: Google
General technological trajectory
Rules
Ownership, control and management structure
Production process
Competitive performance
System components and technical resources
Other bets
Dissemination
Appropriation
Relationship with the values base
Rights promotion and guarantees
Damages and violation of rights
The technological system’s impact on society
Analytical overview: Google and the fight for online information control
Chapter 7: Facebook
General technological trajectory
Rules
Ownership, control and management structure
Production process
Competitive performance
System components and technical resources
Primary technological system: Facebook
Information (newsfeed and timeline)
Connections (friends, groups, pages and events)
Transactions
Platform
Secondary subsystems
Dissemination
Appropriation
Relationship with the values base
Rights promotion and guarantees
Damages and violation of rights
The technological system’s impact on society
Analytical overview: Google and the fight for online information control
Chapter 8: Final considerations
REFERENCES
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