Internet oligopoly : the corporate takeover of our digital world /: the corporate takeover of our digital world. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Nikos Smyrnaios.
• Authors: Smyrnaios, Nikos
• Contents: Front Cover; Internet Oligopoly: The Corporate Takeover of Our Digital World; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Author; Foreword; Notes; Introduction; The Internet as a Political Issue; The Necessary Critique of the Digital Political Economy; Notes; Chapter 1 The Commodification of the Internet; The Legacy of ARPA; A Progressive Project; Convergence of Design and Use; ARPANET -- A Public Good; Free Circulation of Information; The Information Society and the Post-industrial Economy; The Convergence of Neoliberalism and Technological Determinism Technology to Overcome the Critiques of CapitalismThe Deregulation of Telecom and the Neoliberal Turn; The Pioneers: Thatcher and Reagan; Deregulation as a Remedy for Recession; European Dogma; From Counterculture to the Commodification of Cyberculture; A New Audience for the Networked, Personal Computer; The WELL, the First Digital Social Network; A Platform for Freelance Knowledge Workers; The Digerati, Heralds of the Market; Notes; Chapter 2 The Privatisation of the Internet; Information Highways Leading to Internet Privatisation; From Keynesian Stimulus to Deregulation The Limits of Closed NetworksInternet Privatisation: An Issue that was Never Questioned; Internet Start-up Culture Meets Venture Capital; The Birth of Silicon Valley; How to Finance Innovative Companies; From Advising to Speculating; Start-ups: Experiments in Deregulated Labour; The 'Irrational Exuberance' of the New Economy and of Convergence; The Emergence of the 'New Economy'; From Convergence to Concentration; Failed Mergers with Big Impact; Notes; Chapter 3 The Conditions Leading to the Emergence of the Internet Oligopoly; The Internet's Effect on the Information Economy Non-rivalry of Digital GoodsDistribution Advantages; The Positive Externalities of the Internet; Reducing Transaction Costs; Winner-take-all Economics; Financialisation and Deregulation Benefitting an Oligopoly; Regulators Avoid Challenging the Oligopoly; Exceptional Financial Power; Globalised Companies and Strategies; Matrix Management; Avoiding Taxes; Exploiting Labour: a Pillar of the Oligopoly's Profitability; Subcontracting Content Moderators; Flexibility, Precariousness and Wage-fixing; Notes; Chapter 4 The Oligopoly's Strategies for Integration and Infomediation Infomediation: A key function of the internetInformation Brokerage and Coopetition; Google and Facebook: Emblematic Infomediaries; The Vertical Integration of the Oligopoly; Computers and Consumer Electronics; Operating Systems; The Cloud; Networks; The Horizontal Concentration of the Internet; Communication and Networking Services; Access to Information and Online Content; Paid Downloads and Streaming; Notes; Chapter 5 The Advertising Dominance of the Internet; The Critique of Advertising; Influence on Public Policy; A Two-Sided Market; The Audience as a Product; Advertising Heteronomy
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 303.48/33; Communication studies; Information society; Digital electronics -- Social aspects; Technological innovations -- Social aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; COMPUTERS -- Internet -- General; Internet & WWW industries; Computer networking & communications; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Communication -- General; COMPUTERS -- Networking -- General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787691971; 1787691977; 9781787691995; 1787691993
• Related ISBNs: 9781787692008; 1787692000
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 6, 2018)
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