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Information politics : liberation and exploitation in the digital society

Conflict over information has become a central part of modern politics and culture. The sites of struggle are numerous, the actors beyond count. Currents of liberation and exploitation course through the debates about Edward Snowden and surveillance, Anonymous, search engines and social media. In Information Politics, Tim Jordan identifies all these issues in relation to a general understanding of the nature of an information politics that emerged with the rise of mass digital cultures and the internet. He locates it within a field of power and rebellion that is populated by many interwoven social and political conflicts including gender, class and ecology. The exploitations both facilitated by, and contested through increases in information flows; the embedding of information technologies in daily life, and the intersection of network and control protocols are all examined.

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Series Title
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Call Number
306.4 JOR i
Publisher
: Pluto Press.,
Collation
viii, 230 p
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781783712977
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NONE
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Edition
24
Subject(s)
Sociology
Political science
Social Movements
Digital Culture
Social and Cultural Theory
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