Information, Power, and Politics

With the spread of information and communication technologies (ICT)s comes the potential for new social and economic equalities. However, as Information, Power, and Politics: Technological and Institutional Mediations demonstrates, these technologies can also act as an impetus for democratizing information and knowledge.

Sarita Albagli is a senior researcher at the Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology (IBICT), Ministry of Science and Technology. Maria Lucia Maciel is a senior lecturer in the postgraduate political science program at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

Chapter 1 Information, Power, and Politics: From the South, Beyond the South Chapter 2 The Representational Economy and the Global Information Policy Regime Chapter 3 Wikipolitics and the Economy of the Bees: Information, Power, and Politics in a Digital Society Chapter 4 Information, Knowledge, and Power: From the Point of View of Relations between Politics, Economics, and Language Chapter 5 The Crisis of Cognitive Capitalism from the Point of View of Amerindian Perspectivism Chapter 6 Digital Capitalism in Crisis Chapter 7 Productive Restructuring, Subsumption of Intellectual Labor, and the Contradictory Dynamics of Development Chapter 8 Knowledge, Information, and Intellectual Property Rights: An Institutionalist Analysis of the Different Governance Modalities Chapter 9 Digital Democracy: Beyond the Idea of Distributive Justice