Digital Economies at Global Margins Contributor(s): Graham, Mark (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0262535890 ISBN-13: 9780262535892 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - Political Science | Public Policy - Science & Technology Policy - Business & Economics | E-commerce - General (see Also Computers - Electronic Commerce) |
Dewey: 384.309 |
LCCN: 2018010198 |
Series: International Development Research Centre |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 388 pages |
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Publisher Description: Investigations of what increasing digital connectivity and the digitalization of the economy mean for people and places at the world's economic margins. Within the last decade, more than one billion people became new Internet users. Once, digital connectivity was confined to economically prosperous parts of the world; now Internet users make up a majority of the world's population. In this book, contributors from a range of disciplines and locations investigate the impact of increased digital connectivity on people and places at the world's economic margins. Does the advent of a digitalized economy mean that those in economic peripheries can transcend spatial, organizational, social, and political constraints--or do digital tools and techniques tend to reinforce existing inequalities? The contributors present a diverse set of case studies, reporting on digitalization in countries ranging from Chile to Kenya to the Philippines, and develop a broad range of theoretical positions. They consider, among other things, data-driven disintermediation, women's economic empowerment and gendered power relations, digital humanitarianism and philanthropic capitalism, the spread of innovation hubs, and two cases of the reversal of core and periphery in digital innovation.Contributors |
Contributor Bio(s): Graham, Mark: - Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford and a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. He is the editor (with William H. Dutton) of Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication Are Changing Our Lives.Aspray, William: - Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation (2006) and The Internet and American Business (2008), both published by the MIT Press. |