Digital Formations

IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm

Robert Latham, Saskia Sassen - Collection Sociology / Political Science / Globalization Studies

456 pages, parution le 01/08/2005

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Résumé

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 corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks. This book explores how such "digital formations" emerge from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in cyberspace.

While viewing technologies fundamentally in social rather than technical terms, Digital Formations nonetheless emphasizes the importance of recognizing the specific technical capacities of digital technologies. Importantly, it identifies digital formations as a new area of study in the social sciences and in thinking about globalization. The ten chapters, by leading scholars, examine key social, political, and economic developments associated with these new configurations of organization, space, and interaction. They address the operation of digital formations and their implications for the development of longstanding institutions and for their wider contexts and fields, and they consider the political, economic, and other forces shaping those formations and how the formations, in turn, are shaping such forces.

Following a conceptual introduction by the editors are chapters by Hayward Alker, Jonathan Bach and David Stark, Lars-Erik Cederman and Peter A. Kraus, Dieter Ernst, D. Linda Garcia, Doug Guthrie, Robert Latham, Warren Sack, Saskia Sassen, and Steven Weber.

L'auteur - Robert Latham

Robert Latham is Director of the Social Science Research Council Program on Information Technology and International Cooperation. He is the author of The Liberal Moment.

L'auteur - Saskia Sassen

Saskia Sassen, professeur de sociologie à l'université Columbia, membre du Comité pour la pensée globale, a été notamment codirectrice du département économie du Global Chicago Project.

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Sommaire

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Spaces of Knowledge
Networks of Cooperation
Designs and Institutions
List of Contributors
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Princeton University Press
Auteur(s)	Robert Latham, Saskia Sassen
Collection	Sociology / Political Science / Globalization Studies
Parution	01/08/2005
Nb. de pages	456
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	531g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780691119878
ISBN13	978-0-691-11987-8