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From online platforms to digital monopolies : : technology, information and power / / by Jonas C. L. Valente.

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In From Online Platforms to Digital Monopolies: Technology, Information and Power Jonas C.L. Valente discusses the rise of platforms as key players in different social activities, from economy to culture and politics. These companies have a daily presence in the lives of the majority of the world po...

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Superior document:New scholarship in political economy ; Volume 10
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Valente, Jonas Chagas Lúcio,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:New scholarship in political economy ; Volume 10.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Introduction
  • 1 About Technology
  • 1 Artefact and Technological Systems
  • 2 Developing Artefacts and Technological Systems
  • 3 Society and Technology
  • 4 Technology and Society
  • 5 Summary: The Technological Regulation Approach
  • 6 Values Base to Analyse Technology under Capitalism
  • 2 Technology and Capitalist Development
  • 1 Technology and the Economic Sphere
  • 2 Technology and the Political-Institutional Sphere
  • 3 Technology and the Cultural Sphere
  • 3 Information and Communication Technologies and Neoliberalism
  • 1 Context: The 1970s Crisis, Neoliberalism and ICT S
  • 2 Technology and the Economic Sphere: ICT S and Their Impacts on the Economy
  • 3 Impacts on Labour Relations
  • 4 Impacts on Competition Dynamics
  • 4 The Technological Paradigm of Information and Communications Technologies
  • 1 Structural Technologies: The Internet
  • 2 Infrastructure: High-Speed Data Networks (Broadband)
  • 3 Core Input: Microprocessors
  • 4 Carrier Branch: Computers
  • 5 Emerging Technologies: Big Data, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence
  • 5 Digital Platforms
  • 1 Definitions
  • 2 Characteristics
  • 3 Typology of Digital Platforms
  • 4 Production Process and Labour Relations
  • 5 Competition on Platforms
  • 5.1 Business Models
  • 5.2 Market Structure
  • 5.3 Competitive Strategies
  • 6 Digital Monopolies
  • 7 Legislation and the Debate on Legal Regulation
  • 6 Google
  • 1 General Technological Trajectory
  • 2 Rules
  • 3 Ownership, Control and Management Structure
  • 4 Production Process
  • 5 Competitive Performance
  • 6 System Components and Technical Resources
  • 6.1 Other Bets
  • 7 Dissemination
  • 8 Appropriation
  • 9 Relationship with the Values Base
  • 9.1 Rights Promotion and Guarantees
  • Damages and Violation of Rights
  • 10 The Technological System's Impact on Society
  • 11 Analytical Overview: Google and the Fight For Online Information Control
  • 7 Facebook
  • 1 General Technological Trajectory
  • 2 Rules
  • 3 Ownership, Control and Management Structure
  • 4 Production Process
  • 5 Competitive Performance
  • 6 System Components and Technical Resources
  • 6.1 Primary Technological System: Facebook
  • 6.1.1 Information (Newsfeed and Timeline)
  • 6.1.2 Connections (Friends, Groups, Pages and Events)
  • 6.1.3 Transactions
  • 6.1.4 Platform
  • 6.2 Secondary Subsystems
  • 7 Dissemination
  • 8 Appropriation
  • 9 Relationship with the Values Base
  • 9.1 Rights, Promotion and Guarantees
  • 9.2 Damages and Violation of Rights
  • 10 The Technological System's Impact on Society
  • 11 Analytical Overview: Facebook and the Fight for Online Information Control
  • 8 Final Considerations
  • References
  • Index.

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