Digital Dilemmas

Power, Resistance, and the Internet

• Author(s): M.I. Franklin,
• Publisher: OUP USA
• Pages: 271
• ISBN_10: 0199982708
  ISBN_13: 9780199982707
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Industries / Computers & Information Technology , Business & Economics / Industries / Media & Communications , Computers / Social Aspects , Computers / Design, Graphics & Media / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies , Political Science / History & Theory , Political Science / Political Process / General , Political Science / Political Process / Media & Internet , Social Science / Media Studies , Technology & Engineering / Telecommunications ,

Description:... Digital Dilemmas is a groundbreaking ethnographic, mixed method approach to understanding dynamics of power and resistance as they are played out around the future of the internet. M. I. Franklin looks at the way that publics, governments, and multilateral institutions are being redefined and reinvented in digital settings that are ubiquitous and yet controlled by a relative few. Franklin does this through three original and wide-ranging case studies that get at the way that computer-mediated power relations play out "on the ground" through a mixture of overlapping online and offline activity, at personal, community, and transnational levels. Case studies include online activities around homelessness and street papers in the U.S. and around the world, digital and human rights activism carried out though the United Nations, and the ongoing battle between proprietary and free and open source software proponents. The result is a thought-provoking and seminal work on the way that the new paradigms of power and resistance forged online reshape localized and traditional power structures offline.