Digital Formations : : IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm / / ed. by Saskia Sassen, Robert Latham.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 20 line illus. 4 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List Of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Digital Formations: Constructing an Object of Study
  • SPACES OF KNOWLEDGE
  • Recombinant Technology and New Geographies of Association
  • Electronic Markets and Activist Networks: The Weight of Social Logics in Digital Formations
  • The New Mobility of Knowledge: Digital Information Systems and Global Flagship Networks
  • NETWORKS OF COOPERATION
  • Cooperative Networks and the Rural-Urban Divide
  • Networks, Information, and the Rise of the Global Internet
  • The Political Economy of Open Source Software and Why It Matters
  • DESIGNS AND INSTITUTIONS
  • Designing Information Resources for Transboundary Conflict Early Warning Networks
  • Discourse Architecture and Very Large-scale Conversation
  • Transnational Communication and the European Demos
  • Information Technology and State Capacity in China
  • List of Contributors
  • Index