Global politics in the information age

Herausgeber: Lacy, Mark J.; Wilkin, Peter

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Global Politics in the Information Age presents a provocative and wide-ranging introduction to the notion that information technologies are creating new formations of power, control and resistance across the planet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780719067952
• ISBN-10: 0719067952
• Artikelnr.: 33135447

Autorenporträt

Mark J. Lacy is Lecturer in International Relations at Lancaster University. Peter Wilkin is Reader in Communication at Brunel University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the excess of information
Mark J. Lacy 1. Developing a new speech for global security: exploring the rhetoric of evil in the Bush administration response to 9.11.01
Timothy W. Luke 2. Shocked and awed: the convergence of military and media discourse
James R. Compton 3. Digital divisions: online reporting and the network society
Stuart Allan 4. The impossibility of technical security: intellectual property and the paradox of informational capitalism
Matthew David and Jamieson Kirkhope 5. Global financial markets and the ICT revolution: perfect market or (im
perfect domination?)
Ngai
Ling Sum 6. Corporate propaganda and global capitalism
selling free enterprise?
Sharon Beder 7. 'The revolution will now be televised
strategies of communication and class conflict in Brazil'
Peter Wilkin and Danielle Beswick 8. Global solidarity and the communications revolution
resisting state and capital
John Boyle and Peter Wilkin 9. The global public sphere: fourth estate or new world information disorder?
Brian McNair