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OverviewChallenges to Silicon Valley’s dominant role in conjuring and patenting the world’s technological futures are arising around the world. As digital media technologies emerge from new, globally dispersed locations, a multipolar order of communication innovation seems to be in the making. Yet recovering our ability to imagine futures otherwise requires negotiating conditions—economic, geopolitical, sociocultural, and ecological—rather than reproducing them under the pretext of breaking with the present. The essays in this volume examine research on such conditions critically and comparatively in a variety of geographies. Paying due attention to China’s rise as an innovative platform society and AI powerhouse, this book addresses the broader question of a shifting world order and trends that are shaped by China’s influence but that extend beyond its borders. Looking at multipolar communication innovation through various critical lenses, our technological futures simultaneously appear to be old, new, and uncertain, while the infrastructures and platforms underpinning communication innovation both affiliate communities and set them apart. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rolien Hoyng , Gladys Pak Lei ChongPublisher: Michigan State University Press Imprint: Michigan State University Press Weight: 0.142kg ISBN: 9781611864298ISBN 10: 1611864291 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 30 June 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsFusing communications infrastructure with sovereign power, this book's rich collection of essays elucidates new global logics of territoriality, markets, and capital. Marshaling a much-needed critique of multipolar communication innovation, authors working across disciplines identify how modern rules of geopolitics are remade by technocultures of invention and design in contest with platform capitalism. --NED ROSSITER, author of Software, Infrastructure, Labor and coauthor of Organization after Social Media Author InformationRolien Hoyng is assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and director of the Master of Arts in Global Communication program. Gladys Pak Lei Chong is associate professor of the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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