Digital Economies at Global Margins

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ID23501656
AuthorsWilliam Jr Aspray
EditorsMark Graham (0000-0003-2521-5190)
Year2019
Pages392
Publication date2019-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueDigital Economies at Global Margins (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7551/mitpress/10890.001.0001
OpenAlexW2910311222
Open LibraryOL29808565M
ISBN9780262349482
LanguageEN
Citations received17

Investigations of what increasing digital connectivity and the digitalization of the economy mean for people and places at the world's economic margins. Within the last decade, more than one billion people became new Internet users. Once, digital connectivity was confined to economically prosperous parts of the world; now Internet users make up a majority of the world's population. In this book, contributors from a range of disciplines and locations investigate the impact of increased digital connectivity on people and places at the world's economic margins. Does the advent of a digitalized economy mean that those in economic peripheries can transcend spatial, organizational, social, and political constraints—or do digital tools and techniques tend to reinforce existing inequalities? The contributors present a diverse set of case studies, reporting on digitalization in countries ranging from Chile to Kenya to the Philippines, and develop a broad range of theoretical positions. They consider, among other things, data-driven disintermediation, women's economic empowerment and gendered power relations, digital humanitarianism and philanthropic capitalism, the spread of innovation hubs, and two cases of the reversal of core and periphery in digital innovation. Contributors Niels Beerepoot, Ryan Burns, Jenna Burrell, Julie Yujie Chen, Peter Dannenberg, Uwe Deichmann, Jonathan Donner, Christopher Foster, Mark Graham, Nicolas Friederici, Hernan Galperin, Catrihel Greppi, Anita Gurumurthy, Isis Hjorth, Lilly Irani, Molly Jackman, Calestous Juma, Dorothea Kleine, Madlen Krone, Vili Lehdonvirta, Chris Locke, Silvia Masiero, Hannah McCarrick,Deepak K. Mishra, Bitange Ndemo, Jorien Oprins, Elisa Oreglia, Stefan Ouma, Robert Pepper, Jack Linchuan Qiu, Julian Stenmanns, Tim Unwin, Julia Verne, Timothy Waema

Capitalism · Cartography · Digital economy · Digital Revolution · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Empowerment · Geography · Political science · Politics · Population · Power (physics) · Sociology · Telecommunications · The Internet · Demography · Engineering · ICT Impact and Policies · Electronic commerce · Marginality, social · Small business

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