UPRISING: THE INTERNET S UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

BREEN, MARCUS

ISBN 10: 1863358668 / ISBN 13: 9781863358668

Published by COMMON GROUND PUBLISHING, 2011

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The Internet has transformed the social relations that were once managed by the powers that be. As a rapidly maturing communications technology, the Internet has brought people together even while it has reinforced privatism. The desktop computer, the laptop, the cellular and mobile phone, the Global Positoning System, the pilotless drone aircraft, video games and Government documents courtesy of Wikileaks, all are connected on the network of networks.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: UPRISING: THE INTERNET S UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
• Publisher: COMMON GROUND PUBLISHING
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1863358668
• ISBN 13: 9781863358668
• Binding: Rustica (tapa blanda)
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Nuevo
• Book Type: LIBRO

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Synopsis

The Internet has transformed the social relations that were once managed by the powers that be. As a rapidly maturing communications technology, the Internet has brought people together even while it has reinforced privatism. The desktop computer, the laptop, the cellular and mobile phone, the Global Positoning System, the pilotless drone aircraft, video games and Government documents courtesy of Wikileaks, all are connected on the network of networks. Together these converged elements of a global socio-technical system offer wonderful possibilities for human emancipation, even while those ideas collide with established ideas of civility and decency. Utilizing a transdisciplinary approach, Uprising examines the way transgressive knowledge circulates in places and spaces where communication regulation has been removed. In doing so, the book offers a new approach to proletarianization. It is based on the theory that the deregulation of the digital infrastructure allows transgressive knowledge to be mobilized in ways that remake political economy. The current moment sees the Internet opening up questions about social organization, power and democracy. The unintended consequences that are attached to this analysis of the Internet are discussed in research about pornography and jihad. These case studies show how proletarianization can be used to understand the Internet, culture and society.