ISBN:
9781317509059
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 194 Seiten)
,
Diagramme
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Routledge new developments in communication and society research 3
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jin, Dal Yong, 1964 - Digital platforms, imperialism and political culture
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Electronic books
;
Neue Medien
;
Technische Innovation
;
Politische Kultur
;
Imperialismus
;
Globalisierung
Abstract:
In the networked twenty-first century, digital platforms have significantly influenced capital accumulation and digital culture. Platforms, such as social network sites (e.g. Facebook), search engines (e.g. Google), and smartphones (e.g. iPhone), are increasingly crucial because they function as major digital media intermediaries. Emerging companies in non-Western countries have created unique platforms, controlling their own national markets and competing with Western-based platform empires in the global markets. The reality though is that only a handful of Western countries, primarily the U
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; PART I: Imperialism Is Back; 1 Platform Technologies and Political Culture; 2 The Evolution of Imperialism in the 21st Century; PART II: Platform Politics; 3 Construction of Platform Imperialism; 4 Platform Politics in Nation-States; 5 Intellectual Properties in the Digital Economy; PART III: Political Economy of Platform Technologies; 6 User Commodities as Free Labor in the Social Media Era; 7 Challenge to the Global Digital Divide; 8 The Future of Digital Platforms; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
