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Kumar, Sangeet

 
9780253056474: The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web
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ISBN 10: 0253056470 ISBN 13: 9780253056474
Casa editrice: Indiana Univ Pr, 2021

Sinossi

The internet is often seen as either a great emancipator, spreading knowledge and encouraging free discourse, or a repressive machine fueled by capitalism and surveillance.

In The Digital Frontier, Sangeet Kumar interrogates the World Wide Web in the age of globalization. Particularly, he considers the question of internet governance and the impact of Google, Facebook, and Twitter on a global scale. In doing so, he identifies four theories that bring to light the problems of a culturally and politically democratic global digital network. He analyzes how a global common good is used as a ruse by private corporations, how seemingly collaborative spaces are actually exclusionary due to strict policing of what is considered to be legitimate knowledge, how selfhood is being redefined online by Eurocentric ideals, and how the web has challenged nation states that try to limit access to certain information, like Wikileaks and Google Earth.

The Digital Frontier suggests innovative and nuanced ways of understanding the internet as a powerful tool that is quickly shaping what it means to be global.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Sangeet Kumar is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Communication Department at Denison University.



Sangeet Kumar is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the Communication Department at Denison University where he teaches and conducts research in the global dimensions of digital media platforms and culture. He also serves as the Director of the International Studies program at Denison. Prior to his academic career he briefly worked as a journalist with a leading Indian daily in New Delhi, India.

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Editore
Indiana Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0253056470
ISBN 13 
9780253056474
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
280
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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