{"product_id":"the-digital-frontier-9780253056474","title":"The Digital Frontier","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Finally here is a truly global perspective on digital media technologies. Sangeet Kumar's \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e offers a much needed comprehensive analysis of technological infrastructures that undergird the cultural architecture of the Web while making sense of the geopolitical contests played out over these technologies. Kumar's work is original and inspiring: an eye-opener for students and scholars of the internet.\"—José van Dijck, professor of media and digital society and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Connectivity\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Platform Society\u003c\/i\u003e, Utrecht University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sangeet Kumar takes us beyond the lazily Americanist vision of most internet studies. With a deep imagination for fresh critiques and savvy eye for compelling case studies, he reveals the vexed entanglements of freedom and control on the web from the geopolitical vantage point of the global south.\"—John Durham Peters, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marvelous Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Promiscuous Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e, Professor of English, Film and Media Studies at Yale University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e1. Infrastructures of Control\u003cbr\u003e2. Frontier\u003cbr\u003e3. Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e4. Selfhood\u003cbr\u003e5. Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400607998295,"sku":"9780253056474","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253056474.jpg?v=1730471095","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-digital-frontier-9780253056474","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}