Between Truth and Power : The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism

Julie E Cohen

ISBN 10: 019763754X / ISBN 13: 9780197637548

Published by Oxford University Press Mär 2022, 2022

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Neuware - Drawing from law, science and technology studies, cultural studies, and information studies to develop a complex theory of information power and institutional change, Between Truth and Power is a tour de force of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship that has the potential to transform the entire field of scholarship on the Internet and society.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Between Truth and Power : The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Mär 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019763754X
• ISBN 13: 9780197637548
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 234W x 154H x 23D millimeters 234 millimeters width by 154 millimeters height by 23 millimeters depth
• Weight: 540 grams

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Synopsis

A work of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship that explores the ways that law and technology interact.

Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, as accountability for industrial-age harms became a pervasive source of conflict, the US legal system underwent profound, tectonic shifts. Today, struggles over ownership of information-age resources and accountability for information-age harms are producing new systemic changes.

In Between Truth and Power, Julie E. Cohen explores the relationships between legal institutions and political and economic transformation. Systematically examining struggles over the conditions of information flow and the design of information architectures and business models, she argues that as law is enlisted to help produce the profound economic and sociotechnical shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the informational economy, it is too is transforming in fundamental ways. Drawing on elements from legal theory, science and technology studies, information studies, communication studies and organization studies to develop a complex theory of institutional change, Cohen develops an account of the gradual emergence of legal institutions adapted to the information age and of the power relationships that such institutions reflect and reproduce.

A tour de force of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship, Between Truth and Power will transform our thinking about the possible futures of law and legal institutions in the networked information era.

About the Author

Julie E. Cohen is Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology at the Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Cohen teaches and writes about privacy, surveillance, information platforms, intellectual property, and the governance of information and communication networks. She is also the author of Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice.