Digital Formations ：IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm

Publication subTitle ：IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm

Author： Latham Robert;Sassen Saskia;;

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2009

E-ISBN: 9781400831616

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691119861

Subject： G202 information processing technology

Keyword：一般工业技术,社会科学总论,自动化技术、计算机技术

Language： ENG

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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 introduct

Chapter

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

List of Illustrations

Sassen: Electronic Markets and Online Activist Networks: TABLE 1. Financial Assets of Institutional Investors, 1990 to 2001

TABLE 2. Cross-border Transactions in Bonds and Equities, 1975 to 2002

TABLE 3. The Twelve Biggest Stock Markets in the World, 2000 and 2003

TABLE 4. Foreign Listings in Major Stock Exchanges, 2000 and 2003

Ernst: The New Mobility of Knowledge: FIGURE 1. GFNs, DIS, and Knowledge Diffusion

Latham: Networks, Information, and the Rise of the Global Internet: FIGURE 1. Transboundary Internetworking Styles

FIGURE 2

Alker: Designing Information Resources for Transboundary Conflict Early Warning Networks: FIGURE 1. The Case of Chiapas in the CEWS Explorer

Sack: Discourse Architecture and Very Large-scale Conversation: FIGURE 1. Mozilla News

FIGURE 2. soc.culture.palestine during the period August 1–7, 2001

FIGURE 3. soc.culture.palestine during the period August 4–11, 2001

FIGURE 4. soc.culture.afghanistan during the period September 24–28, 2001

FIGURE 5. alt.politics.election for the week prior to the 2000 U.S. election

FIGURE 6. The Same Conversation Map as Shown in Figure 5 with the Discussion Theme “Gore” Selected

FIGURE 7. A Partial List of the Terms Associated with Bush and/or Gore

FIGURE 8. A Sentence from the Newsgroup Associating a Term (Bush) with a Verb

FIGURE 9. Close Examination of the Structure of a Thread

FIGURE 10. alt.politics.election for the Week after the 2000 U.S. Election

Cederman and Kraus: Transnational Communications and the European Demos: FIGURE 1. The Logic of National Substantialism

FIGURE 2. The Logic of Civic Voluntarism

FIGURE 3. The Logic of Bounded Institutionalism

Guthrie: Information Technology and State Sovereignty in China: TABLE 1. Access to Media of Information in China, 2000

TABLE 2. Growth of Information Technology in China, 2001

FIGURE 1. Number of Foreign Joint Ventures in Selected Industrie

TABLE 3. Foreign Capital Invested in China in the Reform Era, 1985 to 1999

FIGURE 2. Gross Industrial Output by Ownership Type

TABLE 4. Vital Statistics on Higher Education in China, 1980 to 1999

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