{"product_id":"the-digital-frontier-9780253056498","title":"The Digital Frontier","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe global web and its digital ecosystem can be seen as tools of emancipation, communication, and spreading knowledge or as means of control, fueled by capitalism, surveillance, and geopolitics.   The Digital Frontier interrogates the world wide web and the digital ecosystem it has spawned to reveal how their conventions, protocols, standards, and algorithmic regulations represent a novel form of global power. Sangeet Kumar shows the operation of this power through the web's infrastructures of control visible at sites where the universalizing imperatives of the web run up against local values, norms, and cultures. These include how the idea of the global common good is used as a ruse by digital oligopolies to expand their private enclosures, how seemingly collaborative spaces can simultaneously be exclusionary as they regulate legitimate knowledge, how selfhood is being redefined online along Eurocentric ideals, and how the web's political challenge is felt differentially by sovereign \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":49400608031063,"sku":"9780253056498","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253056498.jpg?v=1730471095","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-digital-frontier-9780253056498","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}