02270cam a2200289 4500 1650136022 TxAuBib 20241008120000.0 ||||||s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780253056504 0253056500 0028629500 Axis360 TxAuBib Kumar, Sangeet. The Digital Frontier [Boundless]. Indiana Univ Pr, 2021. Framing the Global The global web and its digital ecosystem can be seen as tools of emancipation, communication, and spreading knowledge or as means of control, fueled by capitalism, surveillance, and geopolitics.The Digital Frontier interrogates the world wide web and the digital ecosystem it has spawned to reveal how their conventions, protocols, standards, and algorithmic regulations represent a novel form of global power. Sangeet Kumar shows the operation of this power through the web's "infrastructures of control" visible at sites where the universalizing imperatives of the web run up against local values, norms, and cultures. These include how the idea of the "global common good" is used as a ruse by digital oligopolies to expand their private enclosures, how seemingly collaborative spaces can simultaneously be exclusionary as they regulate legitimate knowledge, how selfhood is being redefined online along Eurocentric ideals, and how the web's political challenge is felt differentially by sovereign nation states. In analyzing this new modality of cultural power in the global digital ecosystem, The Digital Frontier is an important read for scholars, activists, academics and students inspired by the utopian dream of a truly representative global digital network. Format: Blio. COMPUTERS / Internet / Social Media; COMPUTERS / Internet / Content Management Systems; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization. Importer Version: 2016-03-11.01 Import Date: 2024-10-08 20:00:03. Political science Globalization. Computers Internet Content Management Systems. Computers Internet Social Media. Framing the Global. https://atwellpl.boundless.baker-taylor.com/Title?itemId=0028629500 TXHAP