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Global politics in the information age
About this book
Global politics in the information age, available in paperback for the first time, 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.The essays - ranging from the language used by the Bush administration to shape the war on terror, the attempts to control the circulation of informational products, the strategies of media management deployed to shape how the war in Iraq during 2003 was presented in the public sphere, through to the attempts to 'brand' economic globalisation and strategies of resistance developed by the anti-globalisation movement - unearth the new transformations that are unfolding in the twenty first century.This collection of essays brings together academics working across the social sciences - from International Relations, Political Economy, Sociology and Media Studies - to provide the reader with a number of different perspectives on the way that flows of images, capital, ideologies and informational goods are creating global spaces of control and resistance. The book seeks to rethink approaches to global politics that see information society as closing down spaces of resistance, while at the same time exploring the new formations of power that informational society is making possible.The book offers clearly explained theoretical insight into the debates that are shaping discussion on global politics and information society, with case studies that will be of interest to the student seeking to make sense of the changes that are unfolding.
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Table of contents
- Global politics in the information age
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures, boxes and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction: the excess of information
- I Timothy W. Luke Developing a new speech for global security: exploring the rhetoric of evil in the Bush administration response to 9.1 1.0 I
- 2 James R. Compton Shocked and awed: the convergence of military and media discourse
- 3 Stuart Allan Digital divisions: online reporting and the network society
- 4 Matthew David and Jamieson Kirkhope The impossibility of technical security: intellectual property and the paradox of informational capitalism
- 5 Ngai-Ling Sum Global financial markets and the ICT revolution: perfect market or {im-)perfect domination?
- 6 Sharon Beder Corporate propaganda and global capitalism - selling free enterprise?
- 7 Peter Wilkin and Danielle Beswick 'The revolution will now be televised' - strategies of communication and class conflict in Brazil
- 8 John Boyle and Peter Wilkin Global solidarity and the communications revolution - resisting state and capital
- 9 Brian McNair The global public sphere: fourth estate or new world information disorder?
- Bibliography
- Index