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  • Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism

    Between Truth and Power by Cohen, Julie E.;

    The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP USA
    • Date of Publication 1 November 2019

    • ISBN 9780190246693
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages376 pages
    • Size 236x160x33 mm
    • Weight 658 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Drawing from law, science and technology studies, cultural studies, and information studies to develop a complex theory of information power and institutional change, Between Truth and Power is a tour de force of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship that has the potential to transform the entire field of scholarship on the Internet and society.

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    Long description:

    Our current legal system is to a great extent the product of an earlier period of social and economic transformation. From the late nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth century, as accountability for industrial-age harms became a pervasive source of conflict, the U.S. legal system underwent profound, tectonic shifts. Today, ownership of information-age resources and accountability for information-age harms have become pervasive sources of conflict, and different kinds of change are emerging.

    In Between Truth and Power, Julie E. Cohen explores the relationships between legal institutions and political and economic transformation. Systematically examining struggles over the conditions of information flow and the design of information architectures and business models, she argues that as law is enlisted to help produce the profound economic and sociotechnical shifts that have accompanied the emergence of the informational economy, it is too is transforming in fundamental ways. Drawing on elements from legal theory, science and technology studies, information studies, communication studies and organization studies to develop a complex theory of institutional change, Cohen develops an account of the gradual emergence of legal institutions adapted to the information age and of the power relationships that such institutions reflect and reproduce.

    A tour de force of ambitious interdisciplinary scholarship, Between Truth and Power will transform our thinking about the possible futures of law and legal institutions in the networked information era.

    Julie Cohen, a legal scholar, is the latest to undertake the challenge of charting that process for an information-driven culture. While her book follows on other ambitious, synthesizing work such as Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and Nicolas Suzor's Lawless, it uniquely offers a detailed look at how the rise of powerful information intermediaries operates within and with the active assistance of legal, regulatory and political systems.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Part I. Patterns of Entitlement and Disentitlement
    Chapter 1. Everything Old Is New Again-Or Is It?
    Chapter 2. The Biopolitical Public Domain
    Chapter 3. The Information Laboratory
    Chapter 4. Open Networks and Closed Circuits
    Part II: Patterns of Institutional Change
    Chapter 5. The End(s) of Judicial Process
    Chapter 6. The Regulatory State in the Information Age
    Chapter 7. Networks, Standards, and Transnational Governance Institutions
    Chapter 8. The Future(s) of Fundamental Rights
    Conclusion
    Acknowledgments
    Endnotes

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