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The Work and Play of the Mind in the Information Age : Whose Property? / by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Online-Ressource (IX, 226 p, online resource)

Englisch

Druckausg.: The work and play of the mind in the information age / Kalantzis-Cope, Phillip

978-3-319-64650-3

978-3-319-64649-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1021337413 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1007/978-3-319-64650-3

PR 2352  | LB 52800      Ähnliche Literatur

HM1206-1211

302.23

Basisklassifikation: 05.20 (Kommunikation und Gesellschaft)

bicssc: JHB ; bisacsh: SOC052000

*Geistiges Eigentum ; Globalisierung ; Soziologie      Zum Register

*Geistiges Eigentum ; Globalisierung ; Soziologie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Social sciences ; Mass media ; Law ; Communication ; Social sciences in mass media ; Sociology ; Social Sciences

Globalization / Social aspects ; Information society ; Intellectual property / Social aspects

This book tells a series of living stories about a domain of social activity, “the work and play of the mind,” in a particular historical epoch: the “information age.” The stories concern political processes and movements as varied as the World Trade Organization’s Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights, China’s Great Firewall, practices of image sharing in social media, Occupy Wall Street, The Arab Spring, The Alt-Right, and the use of geographical indications by indigenous peoples and farmers to defend their lifestyles. In its theoretical analysis, the book illuminates four alternative political agendas for the work and play of the mind. These four “propertyscapes” represent competing visions for social life, framing projects for collective political action that are at times competing, at times overlapping. The author prompts us to consider whose property is the work and play of the mind, as well as addressing larger questions regarding the framing of political space, the kinds of political communities we may need for the future, and the changing place of the work and play of the mind within these social imaginaries. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including media and communications, arts and design, law, politics and interdisciplinary social sciences.

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1. Introduction: Becoming Property -- 2. The Private: Whose Equilibrium? -- 3. The Exceptional: Whose Creativity? -- 4. The Transformative: Whose Network? -- 5. The Ecological: Whose Nature? -- 6. Conclusion: Whose Property?