TY - BOOK ID - 5348609 TI - Digital formations AU - Latham, Robert AU - Sassen, Saskia PY - 2005 SN - 0691119864 0691119872 9786612458071 9786612935855 140083161X 1282935852 1282458078 9781400831616 9780691119861 9780691119878 PB - Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press DB - UniCat KW - Information technology. KW - Computer networks. KW - Communication, International. KW - Technologie de l'information KW - Réseaux d'ordinateurs KW - Communication internationale KW - Information technology KW - Computer networks KW - Communication, International KW - Réseaux d'ordinateurs KW - International communication KW - World communication KW - Communication systems, Computer KW - Computer communication systems KW - Data networks, Computer KW - ECNs (Electronic communication networks) KW - Electronic communication networks KW - Networks, Computer KW - Teleprocessing networks KW - IT (Information technology) KW - Communication KW - Data transmission systems KW - Digital communications KW - Electronic systems KW - Information networks KW - Telecommunication KW - Cyberinfrastructure KW - Electronic data processing KW - Network computers KW - Technology KW - Telematics KW - Information superhighway KW - Knowledge management KW - Distributed processing UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5348609 AB - Computer-centered networks and technologies are reshaping social relations and constituting new social domains on a global scale, from virtually borderless electronic markets and Internet-based large-scale conversations to worldwide open source software development communities, transnational corporate production systems, and the global knowledge-arenas associated with NGO networks. This book explores how such "digital formations" emerge from the ever-changing intersection of computer-centered technologies and the broad range of social contexts that underlie much of what happens in cyberspace. While viewing technologies fundamentally in social rather than technical terms, Digital Formations nonetheless emphasizes the importance of recognizing the specific technical capacities of digital technologies. Importantly, it identifies digital formations as a new area of study in the social sciences and in thinking about globalization. The ten chapters, by leading scholars, examine key social, political, and economic developments associated with these new configurations of organization, space, and interaction. They address the operation of digital formations and their implications for the development of longstanding institutions and for their wider contexts and fields, and they consider the political, economic, and other forces shaping those formations and how the formations, in turn, are shaping such forces. Following a conceptual introduction by the editors are chapters by Hayward Alker, Jonathan Bach and David Stark, Lars-Erik Cederman and Peter A. Kraus, Dieter Ernst, D. Linda Garcia, Doug Guthrie, Robert Latham, Warren Sack, Saskia Sassen, and Steven Weber. ER -