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OverviewFrom the global geopolitical arena to the smart city, control over knowledge—particularly over data and intellectual property—has become a key battleground for the exercise of economic and political power. For companies and governments alike, control over knowledge—what scholar Susan Strange calls the knowledge structure—has become a goal unto itself. The rising dominance of the knowledge structure is leading to a massive redistribution of power, including from individuals to companies and states. Strong intellectual property rights have concentrated economic benefits in a smaller number of hands, while the “internet of things” is reshaping basic notions of property, ownership, and control. In the scramble to create and control data and intellectual property, governments and companies alike are engaging in ever-more surveillance. The New Knowledge is a guide to and analysis of these changes, and of the emerging phenomenon of the knowledge-driven society. It highlights how the pursuit of the control over knowledge has become its own ideology, with its own set of experts drawn from those with the ability to collect and manipulate digital data. Haggart and Tusikov propose a workable path forward—knowledge decommodification—to ensure that our new knowledge is not treated simply as a commodity to be bought and sold, but as a way to meet the needs of the individuals and communities that create this knowledge in the first place. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Blayne Haggart , Natasha TusikovPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Dimensions: Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.70cm Weight: 0.662kg ISBN: 9781538160879ISBN 10: 1538160870 Pages: 348 Publication Date: 21 June 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Part I: Understanding the knowledge-driven society Chapter 1: Defining knowledge: The eight principles Chapter 2: New policy challenges, new strategies Part II: Exploring the knowledge-driven society Chapter 3: Intellectual property and the economics of control Chapter 4: Demystifying Data Chapter 5: Ideology, Dataism and the New Experts Chapter 6: Power, Data and the Private Sector Chapter 7: Property and control: Who owns the Internet of Things? Chapter 8: The Data-Driven State Chapter 9: Governing Data Conclusion: Thinking Beyond the Market References Notes Index About the AuthorsReviewsIn their refreshing and accessible new book, Blayne Haggart and Natasha Tusikov move beyond analyses of the information society that stresses technology and commercial innovation to develop an account of knowledge-driven societies that highlights the character of social power deployed via knowledge relations, importantly focusing on the central role of the state. Their critical political economic perspective pays significant dividends in moving away from a narrative that offers a depoliticised and relatively organic account of the new surveillance, or knowledge-based capitalism, to uncover its critically important social and power relations. The book's overarching focus on the democratic imperative of the decommodification of knowledge, data, and information is both timely and necessary if we are to both benefit from the expansion of knowledge-based socioeconomic processes and resist the conglomeration and network effects that have centralised political economic power in a small group of private organisations (sometimes referred to as 'Big Tech').--Christopher May, emeritus professor of political economy, Lancaster University UK Who controls the knowledge-driven digital society? Who owns and operates data sets, algorithms, AI-bots, and other computational technologies that are rapidly shifting the power balance in democratic countries? This book offers a primer for readers interested in the impact of digital technologies on everyday life and geopolitics. Haggart and Tusikov superbly unpack the global knowledge infrastructure, analyzing its technical intricacies and its governing complexities in detail. Warmly recommended to scholars and students across the globe.--Jose van Dijck, distinguished professor of media and digital society, Utrecht University and author, The Culture of Connectivity and The Platform Society Author InformationBlayne Haggart is an associate professor of political science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform (2014) and co-editor of two volumes on the political economy of internet governance and knowledge governance, in addition to several journal articles on these subjects. Natasha Tusikov is an associate professor in the Department of Social Science at York University in Toronto and a research fellow with the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech Lab), School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. Her research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation. She is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (2017). She is a co-editor of Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century (2019) and co-editor of Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State? (2021). Her research has also been published in Surveillance & Society and Internet Policy Review. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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