Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century

Book Overview

IntroductionBlayne Haggart, Kathryn Henne and Natasha Tusikov
Part I: Susan Strange and the 21st Century Knowledge Structure
Taking Knowledge Seriously: Toward an International Political Economy Theory of Knowledge GovernanceBlayne Haggart
A Strange Approach to Information, Network, Sharing, and Platform SocietiesSara Bannerman and Angela Orasch
Reflection IRandall Germain
Part II: Internet Governance and Regulation
Internet Infrastructure and the Persistent Myth of U.S. HegemonyDwayne Winseck
Precarious Ownership of the Internet of Things in the Age of DataNatasha Tusikov
Reflection IIMadeline Carr
Part III: Questions of Truth and Censorship
Weaponising Copyright: Cultural Governance and Regulating Speech in the Knowledge EconomyDebora Halbert
Disinformation and Resistance in the Surveillance of Indigenous ProtestersJenna Harb and Kathryn Henne
Reflection IIIBlayne Haggart
Part IV: Surveillance and Knowledge and/as Control
Surveillance in the Name of Governance: Aadhaar as a Fix for Leaking Systems in IndiaKathryn Henne
A Border Seeping in All Directions: Technologies of Separation Along the U.S.-Mexico Border in Ambos NogalesAllison Fish
Reflection IVJennifer Musto
Conclusion: Looking Back, Looking ForwardNatasha Tusikov, Blayne Haggart and Kathryn Henne

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030145425
• ISBN13: 9783030145422
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"