Digital Formations : IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm

Robert Latham

ISBN 10: 0691119872 / ISBN 13: 9780691119878

Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2005

Beschreibung

nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks. This book explores how such 'digital formations' emerge from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in cyberspace.While viewing technologies fundamentally in social rather than technical terms, Digital Formations nonetheless emphasizes the importance of recognizing the specific technical capacities of digital technologies. Importantly, it identifies digital formations as a new area of study in the social sciences and in thinking about globalization. The ten chapters, by leading scholars, examine key social, political, and economic developments associated with these new configurations of organization, space, and interaction. They address the operation of digital formations and their implications for the development of longstanding institutions and for their wider contexts and fields, and they consider the political, economic, and other forces shaping those formations and how the formations, in turn, are shaping such forces.Following a conceptual introduction by the editors are chapters by Hayward Alker, Jonathan Bach and David Stark, Lars-Erik Cederman and Peter A. Kraus, Dieter Ernst, D. Linda Garcia, Doug Guthrie, Robert Latham, Warren Sack, Saskia Sassen, and Steven Weber.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780691119878

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Digital Formations : IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm
• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0691119872
• ISBN-13: 9780691119878
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 234B x 156 H x 22 T Millimeter Breite: 234 mm, Höhe: 156 mm, Tiefe: 22 mm
• Gewicht: 646 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks. This book explores how such "digital formations" emerge from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in cyberspace.


While viewing technologies fundamentally in social rather than technical terms, Digital Formations nonetheless emphasizes the importance of recognizing the specific technical capacities of digital technologies. Importantly, it identifies digital formations as a new area of study in the social sciences and in thinking about globalization. The ten chapters, by leading scholars, examine key social, political, and economic developments associated with these new configurations of organization, space, and interaction. They address the operation of digital formations and their implications for the development of longstanding institutions and for their wider contexts and fields, and they consider the political, economic, and other forces shaping those formations and how the formations, in turn, are shaping such forces.


Following a conceptual introduction by the editors are chapters by Hayward Alker, Jonathan Bach and David Stark, Lars-Erik Cederman and Peter A. Kraus, Dieter Ernst, D. Linda Garcia, Doug Guthrie, Robert Latham, Warren Sack, Saskia Sassen, and Steven Weber.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Latham is Director of the Social Science Research Council Program on Information Technology and International Cooperation. He is the author of "The Liberal Moment". Saskia Sassen is the Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her books include "The Global City" and the forthcoming "Denationalization: Territory, Authority, and Rights in a Global Digital Age" (both Princeton).