Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance, and the Internet by M.I. Franklin (English)

Description: Digital Dilemmas by M.I. Franklin Digital Dilemmas is a groundbreaking ethnographic, mixed method approach to understanding dynamics of power and resistance as they are played out around the future of the internet. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Digital Dilemmas looks at the dynamics of power and resistance surrounding the internet. It focuses on how publics, nation-states, and multilateral institutions are being continually reinvented in local and global decision-making domains that are accessed and controlled by a relative few. Importantly it unpacks the ways in which computer-mediated power relations play out as "on the ground" and "cyberspatial" practices and discourses that collude and collidewith one another at the personal, community, and transnational level. Case studies include homelessness and the internet, rights-based advocacy for the online environment at the United Nations, and how theongoing battle between proprietary and open source software designs affects ordinary people and policy-making. The result is an innovative and groundbreaking critique of the way new paradigms of power and resistance forged online reshape traditional power hierarchies offline, at home and abroad. Author Biography M.I. Franklin is Associate Professor and Director of the Global Media and Transnational Communications Program at Goldsmiths, University of London. Table of Contents List of FiguresAcknowledgementsChapter One. Digital Dilemmas?Chapter Two. Paradigm Resets: Real-Life & Virtual ReconnectionsChapter Three. Who Rules in the Internet Galaxy? Battle of the Browsers and BeyondChapter Four. Can the Subaltern Speak in Cyberspace? Homelessness and the InternetChapter Five. Who Should Control the Internet? Emerging Publics and Human RightsChapter Six. Paradigm Reboot: Decolonizing FuturesNotesLiterature ListIndex Review "This well-researched tome of contemporary digital dilemmas positions itself well among other works that have been published within the discipline. By examining specific cases in-depth against a comprehensive hypothesis, Franklin provides a nuanced argument and refreshing perspective on the complex and ever-changing dynamics brought about by the Internet." --LSE Review of Books"Digital Dilemmas addresses an important current field of media studies. Its principal strength and originality lies in its ability to bridge social, technological and cultural approaches to the internet and to new media generally, in a space in which major studies are typically one-dimensional. Franklins strong and broad-ranging grounding in social theory is evident in her clear explication of the paradox dilemma of a globally distributed technologywhich is, at the same time, controlled by a small number of hardware and software interests." --Arjun Appadurai, New York University"Who owns the internet? Are we getting the internet we deserve? M.I. Franklins new work critically analyzes how the internet developed over the past decades through the concepts of nation-state, publics/public spheres and governmentality. A thought-provoking book, Digital Dilemmas tackles a number of poignant questions arising from tensions between the internets co-habitants." --José van Dijck, University of Amsterdam"Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, scholarship and activism, and spanning an impressive range of sites (from courtroom to homeless refuge and UN policy forum), M.I. Franklins exciting new book offers a red thread towards a sharper understanding of the entangled challenges and normative choices of the internet age. Franklin, through her careful unpicking of the complexities, gets us to a place where we start to grasp another way of thinking about theinternet, and we are all in her debt." --Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science"Carefully and methodically, Digital Dilemmas unravels the mythologies of the internet to provide a persuasive sense of the power struggles, dominations, and resistances that inform the internets many meanings for peoples lives from the homeless on the streets to the gilded halls of the United Nations." --J.P. Singh, George Mason University Promotional A thought-provoking and seminal work on the way that the new paradigms of power and resistance forged online reshape localized and traditional power structures offline Long Description Digital Dilemmas looks at the dynamics of power and resistance surrounding the internet. It focuses on how publics, nation-states, and multilateral institutions are being continually reinvented in local and global decision-making domains that are accessed and controlled by a relative few. Importantly it unpacks the ways in which computer-mediated power relations play out as "on the ground" and "cyberspatial" practices and discourses that collude and collidewith one another at the personal, community, and transnational level. Case studies include homelessness and the internet, rights-based advocacy for the online environment at the United Nations, and how the ongoing battle between proprietary and open source software designs affects ordinary people andpolicy-making. The result is an innovative and groundbreaking critique of the way new paradigms of power and resistance forged online reshape traditional power hierarchies offline, at home and abroad. Review Text "Digital Dilemmas addresses an important current field of media studies. Its principal strength and originality lies in its ability to bridge social, technological and cultural approaches to the internet and to new media generally, in a space in which major studies are typically one-dimensional. Franklins strong and broad-ranging grounding in social theory is evident in her clear explication of the paradox dilemma of a globally distributed technologywhich is, at the same time, controlled by a small number of hardware and software interests."--Arjun Appadurai, New York University"Who owns the internet? Are we getting the internet we deserve? M.I. Franklins new work critically analyzes how the internet developed over the past decades through the concepts of nation-state, publics/public spheres and governmentality. A thought-provoking book, Digital Dilemmas tackles a number of poignant questions arising from tensions between the internets co-habitants."--José van Dijck, University of Amsterdam"Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, scholarship and activism, and spanning an impressive range of sites (from courtroom to homeless refuge and UN policy forum), M.I. Franklins exciting new book offers a red thread towards a sharper understanding of the entangled challenges and normative choices of the internet age. Franklin, through her careful unpicking of the complexities, gets us to a place where we start to grasp another way of thinking about theinternet, and we are all in her debt."--Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science"Carefully and methodically, Digital Dilemmas unravels the mythologies of the internet to provide a persuasive sense of the power struggles, dominations, and resistances that inform the internets many meanings for peoples lives from the homeless on the streets to the gilded halls of the United Nations."--J.P. Singh, George Mason University Review Quote "This well-researched tome of contemporary digital dilemmas positions itself well among other works that have been published within the discipline. By examining specific cases in-depth against a comprehensive hypothesis, Franklin provides a nuanced argument and refreshing perspective on the complex and ever-changing dynamics brought about by the Internet." --LSE Review of Books "Digital Dilemmas addresses an important current field of media studies. Its principal strength and originality lies in its ability to bridge social, technological and cultural approaches to the internet and to new media generally, in a space in which major studies are typically one-dimensional. Franklins strong and broad-ranging grounding in social theory is evident in her clear explication of the paradox dilemma of a globally distributed technology which is, at the same time, controlled by a small number of hardware and software interests." --Arjun Appadurai, New York University "Who owns the internet? Are we getting the internet we deserve? M.I. Franklins new work critically analyzes how the internet developed over the past decades through the concepts of nation-state, publics/public spheres and governmentality. A thought-provoking book, Digital Dilemmas tackles a number of poignant questions arising from tensions between the internets co-habitants." --Josvan Dijck, University of Amsterdam "Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, scholarship and activism, and spanning an impressive range of sites (from courtroom to homeless refuge and UN policy forum), M.I. Franklins exciting new book offers a red thread towards a sharper understanding of the entangled challenges and normative choices of the internet age. Franklin, through her careful unpicking of the complexities, gets us to a place where we start to grasp another way of thinking about the internet, and we are all in her debt." --Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science "Carefully and methodically, Digital Dilemmas unravels the mythologies of the internet to provide a persuasive sense of the power struggles, dominations, and resistances that inform the internets many meanings for peoples lives from the homeless on the streets to the gilded halls of the United Nations." --J.P. Singh, George Mason University Feature Selling point: Offers an original argument about how digital landscapes are incorporated into public space and what this means for civic engagementSelling point: Includes a vast array of sources from highly academic works to popular media; A groundbreaking approach to a timely topic Details ISBN0199982708 Short Title DIGITAL DILEMMAS Language English ISBN-10 0199982708 ISBN-13 9780199982707 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 302.231 Year 2014 Author M.I. Franklin Subtitle Power, Resistance, and the Internet Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States UK Release Date 2014-01-16 AU Release Date 2014-01-16 NZ Release Date 2014-01-16 US Release Date 2014-01-16 Edited by Jean van Heijenoort Birth 1564 Death 1593 Affiliation Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley Position Professor of Mathematics Qualifications Ph.D. Pages 288 Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Publication Date 2014-01-16 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Alternative 9780199982691 Illustrations 5 illustrations Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:116652039;

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