Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance, and the Internet (Paperback)

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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 collide with 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 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.

About the Author


M.I. Franklin is Associate Professor and Director of the Global Media and Transnational Communications Program at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Product Details
ISBN: 9780199982707
ISBN-10: 0199982708
Publisher: OUP Us
Publication Date: December 17th, 2013
Pages: 288
Language: English