ISBN:
9780691119878
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (381 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Digital Formations : IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks. This book explores how such "digital formations" emerge from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in cyberspace
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; DIGITAL FORMATIONS; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Digital Formations: Constructing an Object of Study; SPACES OF KNOWLEDGE; Recombinant Technology and New Geographies of Association; Electronic Markets and Activist Networks: The Weight of Social Logics in Digital Formations; Sassen: Electronic Markets and Online Activist Networks: TABLE 1. Financial Assets of Institutional Investors, 1990 to 2001; TABLE 2. Cross-border Transactions in Bonds and Equities, 1975 to 2002
Description / Table of Contents:
TABLE 3. The Twelve Biggest Stock Markets in the World, 2000 and 2003TABLE 4. Foreign Listings in Major Stock Exchanges, 2000 and 2003; The New Mobility of Knowledge: Digital Information Systems and Global Flagship Networks; Ernst: The New Mobility of Knowledge: FIGURE 1. GFNs, DIS, and Knowledge Diffusion; NETWORKS OF COOPERATION; Cooperative Networks and the Rural-Urban Divide; Networks, Information, and the Rise of the Global Internet; Latham: Networks, Information, and the Rise of the Global Internet: FIGURE 1. Transboundary Internetworking Styles; FIGURE 2
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The Political Economy of Open Source Software and Why It MattersDESIGNS AND INSTITUTIONS; Designing Information Resources for Transboundary Conflict Early Warning Networks; Alker: Designing Information Resources for Transboundary Conflict Early Warning Networks: FIGURE 1. The Case of Chiapas in the CEWS Explorer; Discourse Architecture and Very Large-scale Conversation; Sack: Discourse Architecture and Very Large-scale Conversation: FIGURE 1. Mozilla News; FIGURE 2. soc.culture.palestine during the period August 1-7, 2001; FIGURE 3. soc.culture.palestine during the period August 4-11, 2001
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FIGURE 4. soc.culture.afghanistan during the period September 24-28, 2001FIGURE 5. alt.politics.election for the week prior to the 2000 U.S. election; FIGURE 6. The Same Conversation Map as Shown in Figure 5 with the Discussion Theme "Gore" Selected; FIGURE 7. A Partial List of the Terms Associated with Bush and/or Gore; FIGURE 8. A Sentence from the Newsgroup Associating a Term (Bush) with a Verb; FIGURE 9. Close Examination of the Structure of a Thread; FIGURE 10. alt.politics.election for the Week after the 2000 U.S. Election; Transnational Communication and the European Demos
Description / Table of Contents:
Cederman and Kraus: Transnational Communications and the European Demos: FIGURE 1. The Logic of National SubstantialismFIGURE 2. The Logic of Civic Voluntarism; FIGURE 3. The Logic of Bounded Institutionalism; Information Technology and State Capacity in China; Guthrie: Information Technology and State Sovereignty in China: TABLE 1. Access to Media of Information in China, 2000; TABLE 2. Growth of Information Technology in China, 2001; FIGURE 1. Number of Foreign Joint Ventures in Selected Industrie; TABLE 3. Foreign Capital Invested in China in the Reform Era, 1985 to 1999
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FIGURE 2. Gross Industrial Output by Ownership Type
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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