Digital Formations : IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm /

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 corpora...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Other Authors: Latham, Robert, 1956- (Editor), Sassen, Saskia (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009]
Edition:Course Book
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List Of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Digital Formations: Constructing an Object of Study / Latham, Robert / Sassen, Saskia
  • SPACES OF KNOWLEDGE
  • Recombinant Technology and New Geographies of Association / Bach, Jonathan / Stark, David
  • Electronic Markets and Activist Networks: The Weight of Social Logics in Digital Formations / Sassen, Saskia
  • The New Mobility of Knowledge: Digital Information Systems and Global Flagship Networks / Ernst, Dieter
  • NETWORKS OF COOPERATION
  • Cooperative Networks and the Rural-Urban Divide / Garcia, D . Linda
  • Networks, Information, and the Rise of the Global Internet / Latham, Robert
  • The Political Economy of Open Source Software and Why It Matters / Weber, Steven
  • DESIGNS AND INSTITUTIONS
  • Designing Information Resources for Transboundary Conflict Early Warning Networks / Alker, Hayward R.
  • Discourse Architecture and Very Large-scale Conversation / Sack, Warren
  • Transnational Communication and the European Demos / Cederman, Lars-Erik / Kraus, Peter A.
  • Information Technology and State Capacity in China / Guthrie, Doug
  • List of Contributors
  • Index