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Standardization and Digital Enclosure: The Privatization of Standards, Knowledge, and Policy in the Age of Global Information Technology
Authored by: Timothy Schoechle, University of Colorado, USA13-digit ISBN: 978-1-60566-334-0
384 pages; 2009 Copyright
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Illustrations: figures, tables
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Translation Rights: World
384 pages; 2009 Copyright
Price: US $165.00 (hardcover only)
Perpetual Access: US $250.00
Print + Perpetual Access: US $330.00
Illustrations: figures, tables
(8 1/2” x 11”)
Translation Rights: World
Recent trends have shown increasing privatization of standardization activities under various corporations, trade associations, and consortia, raising significant public policy issues about how the public interest may be represented.
Standardization and Digital Enclosure: The Privatization of Standards, Knowledge, and Policy in the Age of Global Information Technology establishes a framework of analysis for public policy discussion and debate. Discussing topics such as social practices and political economic discourse, this book offers a truly interdisciplinary approach to standardization and privatization valuable to technical, economic, and political researchers and practitioners, as well as academicians involved in related fields.
Subject:
Global Information Technology; Electronic Government; IT Security/Ethics; Electronic Commerce
Market:
This publication is essential for all academic, research, and government libraries, as well as all those looking for the latest studies on globalization, geopolitics, trade, foreign policy, as well as related issues including technical innovation, access to information and media, intellectual property, and emerging industrial economic development. Researchers, educators, practitioners, policy makers, and students who are interested in the Enclosure Theory and standardization of intellectual property in the age of digital information will find this book of extremely practical value.
Topics Covered
• Consortia legitimation arguments
• Discourse on structure of standardization
• Divergent systems and cultures
• Global context of standardization
• Relevant discourses and social practices
• Standardization system
• Taxonomy of standards
• Theoretical and methodological approaches
• Political economy
• Taxonomy of arguments and discourses
• U.S. standardization system
Standardization and Digital Enclosure: The Privatization of Standards, Knowledge, and Policy in the Age of Global Information Technology establishes a framework of analysis for public policy discussion and debate. Discussing topics such as social practices and political economic discourse, this book offers a truly interdisciplinary approach to standardization and privatization valuable to technical, economic, and political researchers and practitioners, as well as academicians involved in related fields.
Subject:
Global Information Technology; Electronic Government; IT Security/Ethics; Electronic Commerce
Market:
This publication is essential for all academic, research, and government libraries, as well as all those looking for the latest studies on globalization, geopolitics, trade, foreign policy, as well as related issues including technical innovation, access to information and media, intellectual property, and emerging industrial economic development. Researchers, educators, practitioners, policy makers, and students who are interested in the Enclosure Theory and standardization of intellectual property in the age of digital information will find this book of extremely practical value.
Topics Covered
• Consortia legitimation arguments
• Discourse on structure of standardization
• Divergent systems and cultures
• Global context of standardization
• Relevant discourses and social practices
• Standardization system
• Taxonomy of standards
• Theoretical and methodological approaches
• Political economy
• Taxonomy of arguments and discourses
• U.S. standardization system
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