Description
Book SynopsisFrom 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.
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 Authors
