Information, Power, and Politics

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.

This volume presents a penetrating analysis of key contradictions in the nexus of information, knowledge and power within 21st century capitalism. Through their appropriation of digital technologies, forces of resistance may lead to a deepening of democracy or, alternatively, dominant actors may succeed in institutionalising new means of control through their appropriation of the means of communication. The authors offer much needed critical assessments of alternative cultural, social and economic positionings as viewed from the 'South.'

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