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Thursday, January 05, 2006

Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm



Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm.
Latham, Robert, and Saskia Sassen, eds. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

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

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