Digital Dilemmas Poer, Resistance, and the Internet [Paperback]

Digital Dilemmaslooks at the dynamics of power and resistance surrounding the internet. It focuses on how publics, nation-states, and multilateral institutions are being continually reinvented in local and global decision-making domains that are accessed and controlled by a relative few. Importantly it unpacks the ways in which computer-mediated power relations play out as on the ground and cyberspatial practices and discourses that collude and collide with one another at the personal, community, and transnational level. Case studies include homelessness and the internet, rights-based advocacy for the online environment at the United Nations, and how the ongoing battle between proprietary and open source software designs affects ordinary people and policy-making. The result is an innovative and groundbreaking critique of the way new paradigms of power and resistance forged online reshape traditional power hierarchies offline, at home and abroad.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Chapter One. Digital Dilemmas?
Chapter Two. Paradigm Resets: Real-Life & Virtual Reconnections
Chapter Three. Who Rules in the 'Internet Galaxy'? Battle of the Browsers and Beyond
Chapter Four. Can the Subaltern Speak in Cyberspace? Homelessness and the Internet
Chapter Five. Who Should Control the Internet? Emerging Publics and Human Rights
Chapter Six. Paradigm Reboot: Decolonizing Futures
Notes
Literature List
Index

This well-researched tome of contemporary digital dilemmas positions itself well among other works that have been published within the discipline. By examining specific cases in-depth against a comprehensive hypothesis, Franklin provides a nuanced argument and refreshing perspective on the complex and ever-changing dynamics brought about by the Internet. --LSE Review of Books

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