Alnoor Bhimani
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- August 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199260386
- eISBN:
- 9780191601231
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199260389.003.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Financial Economics
This introductory chapter establishes a common theme for this volume by presenting a definition of the digital economy. The impact of digital technologies on the field management accounting is ...
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This introductory chapter establishes a common theme for this volume by presenting a definition of the digital economy. The impact of digital technologies on the field management accounting is discussed. This is followed by an overview of the chapters in this volume.Less
This introductory chapter establishes a common theme for this volume by presenting a definition of the digital economy. The impact of digital technologies on the field management accounting is discussed. This is followed by an overview of the chapters in this volume.
Alnoor Bhimani (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- August 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780199260386
- eISBN:
- 9780191601231
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199260389.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Financial Economics
This book explores the impact of the digital economy on the practice of management accounting. The digital economy is defined as the digital interrelationships and dependencies between emerging ...
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This book explores the impact of the digital economy on the practice of management accounting. The digital economy is defined as the digital interrelationships and dependencies between emerging communication and information technologies, data transfers along predefined channels and emerging platforms, and related contingencies within and across institutional and organisational entities. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 discusses accounting and management control systems, and structural changes relating to the advent of digital technologies. Part 2 examines organisationally focused shifts in the face of digitisation trends in the economy. Part 3 looks into the accounting transformations which may be pursued in terms of practice and as concepts.Less
This book explores the impact of the digital economy on the practice of management accounting. The digital economy is defined as the digital interrelationships and dependencies between emerging communication and information technologies, data transfers along predefined channels and emerging platforms, and related contingencies within and across institutional and organisational entities. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 discusses accounting and management control systems, and structural changes relating to the advent of digital technologies. Part 2 examines organisationally focused shifts in the face of digitisation trends in the economy. Part 3 looks into the accounting transformations which may be pursued in terms of practice and as concepts.
Simon Head
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195179835
- eISBN:
- 9780199850211
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179835.003.0006
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Behavioural Economics
This chapter examines the so-called digital assembly line in the contact center industry in the U.S. The hyperefficiency of the software in call centers provided managers with the bundled powers of ...
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This chapter examines the so-called digital assembly line in the contact center industry in the U.S. The hyperefficiency of the software in call centers provided managers with the bundled powers of analysis, surveillance and control, but it also led them to micromanage employees' work. This chapter suggests that the call center industry is in need of renewal because it is an industry emblematic of the digital economy. Managed properly, high-performance call centers can provide good jobs for the non-college educated.Less
This chapter examines the so-called digital assembly line in the contact center industry in the U.S. The hyperefficiency of the software in call centers provided managers with the bundled powers of analysis, surveillance and control, but it also led them to micromanage employees' work. This chapter suggests that the call center industry is in need of renewal because it is an industry emblematic of the digital economy. Managed properly, high-performance call centers can provide good jobs for the non-college educated.
Yu Hong
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252040917
- eISBN:
- 9780252099434
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252040917.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book examines the genesis, mechanisms, and dynamics of forging a network-based economy in China during the crisis and the restructuring act that followed. Through historical analysis of the ...
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This book examines the genesis, mechanisms, and dynamics of forging a network-based economy in China during the crisis and the restructuring act that followed. Through historical analysis of the entire range of communications, from telecommunications to broadband, from wireless networks to digital media, it explores how the state, entangled with market forces and class interests, constructs and realigns its digitalized sector. It argues that corporatization, networking, and investment within the state-dominated realm of communications intensified after the 2008 global economic crisis, to overcome the contradictions generated by the old investment-and-export dependent growth model, on the one hand, and to enhance China’s techno-economic capacities in the renewed global competition for command, on the other. Despite the qualitative changes it brought in communications, this strategy achieved limited results for economic restructuring, because the ensuing spending binges paid little attention to social needs. Ultimately, this book historicizes and theorizes China’s state-led model of digital capitalism, which contends, collaborates, and overlaps with the U.S.-dominated system of global digital capitalism. It reveals so-called cyber nationalism or networked nationalism as neither monolithic nor guaranteed but contingent upon specific political-economic relations. It also predicts the future: While China’s embrace of communications is likely to accelerate the country’s global rise, it is not going to be a simple rise to power but a continual effort to tamp down crises and manage contradictions.Less
This book examines the genesis, mechanisms, and dynamics of forging a network-based economy in China during the crisis and the restructuring act that followed. Through historical analysis of the entire range of communications, from telecommunications to broadband, from wireless networks to digital media, it explores how the state, entangled with market forces and class interests, constructs and realigns its digitalized sector. It argues that corporatization, networking, and investment within the state-dominated realm of communications intensified after the 2008 global economic crisis, to overcome the contradictions generated by the old investment-and-export dependent growth model, on the one hand, and to enhance China’s techno-economic capacities in the renewed global competition for command, on the other. Despite the qualitative changes it brought in communications, this strategy achieved limited results for economic restructuring, because the ensuing spending binges paid little attention to social needs. Ultimately, this book historicizes and theorizes China’s state-led model of digital capitalism, which contends, collaborates, and overlaps with the U.S.-dominated system of global digital capitalism. It reveals so-called cyber nationalism or networked nationalism as neither monolithic nor guaranteed but contingent upon specific political-economic relations. It also predicts the future: While China’s embrace of communications is likely to accelerate the country’s global rise, it is not going to be a simple rise to power but a continual effort to tamp down crises and manage contradictions.
Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262035019
- eISBN:
- 9780262335959
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035019.001.0001
- Subject:
- Information Science, Library Science
The digital economy has great potential, but it also entails risks. The notion of personal property and ownership is under threat because of the shift to digital distribution and ubiquitous embedded ...
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The digital economy has great potential, but it also entails risks. The notion of personal property and ownership is under threat because of the shift to digital distribution and ubiquitous embedded software. This book makes a case for the importance of ownership in the digital age. It argues that the rights associated with ownership serve critical functions of promoting cultural preservation and innovation as well as protecting consumer autonomy. Technological developments and the aggressive efforts of IP rights holders, however, are gradually eroding the concept of ownership. There has been a disconcerting trend of courts bypassing the default rules of property law; the rights acquired by consumers through purchase are defined instead by license agreements drafted by IP rights holders or retailers. In addition to license agreements, IP rights holders also employ technological methods such as Digital Rights Management (DRM) to restrict consumer use and protect their intellectual property. The matter is made worse by online retailers’ insufficient disclosure, which frequently uses words like “buy” or “own” to offer false promises of ownership. The loss of personal property rights has serious consequence not just for individual consumers; an important institutional actor – the public library – is also struggling to deal with the shift to digital collections and the corresponding restrictions imposed by IP rights holders. In response to these threats to ownership, the book explores legal as well as technological solutions, and presents a powerful argument for informed consumer choice in the digital marketplace.Less
The digital economy has great potential, but it also entails risks. The notion of personal property and ownership is under threat because of the shift to digital distribution and ubiquitous embedded software. This book makes a case for the importance of ownership in the digital age. It argues that the rights associated with ownership serve critical functions of promoting cultural preservation and innovation as well as protecting consumer autonomy. Technological developments and the aggressive efforts of IP rights holders, however, are gradually eroding the concept of ownership. There has been a disconcerting trend of courts bypassing the default rules of property law; the rights acquired by consumers through purchase are defined instead by license agreements drafted by IP rights holders or retailers. In addition to license agreements, IP rights holders also employ technological methods such as Digital Rights Management (DRM) to restrict consumer use and protect their intellectual property. The matter is made worse by online retailers’ insufficient disclosure, which frequently uses words like “buy” or “own” to offer false promises of ownership. The loss of personal property rights has serious consequence not just for individual consumers; an important institutional actor – the public library – is also struggling to deal with the shift to digital collections and the corresponding restrictions imposed by IP rights holders. In response to these threats to ownership, the book explores legal as well as technological solutions, and presents a powerful argument for informed consumer choice in the digital marketplace.
Arlindo Oliveira
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262036030
- eISBN:
- 9780262338394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262036030.003.0003
- Subject:
- Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
The chapter covers the developments in science that led to the digital computers of today. It all started with the understanding of electromagnetic phenomena, made possible by the discovery of ...
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The chapter covers the developments in science that led to the digital computers of today. It all started with the understanding of electromagnetic phenomena, made possible by the discovery of Maxwell’s equations, and all the developments that followed and made possible the controlled used of electricity. Following up on the great developments of the last half of the 19th century, the great discoveries in physics led to the invention of the transistor, one of the most important creations of humanity. Transistors made integrated circuits with millions and billions of transistors possible, thanks to Moore’s law, which predicted an exponential development of digital circuit technology. These complex digital circuits made possible mobile communications, digital computers, the internet and, ultimately, the digital economy that makes modern society possible.Less
The chapter covers the developments in science that led to the digital computers of today. It all started with the understanding of electromagnetic phenomena, made possible by the discovery of Maxwell’s equations, and all the developments that followed and made possible the controlled used of electricity. Following up on the great developments of the last half of the 19th century, the great discoveries in physics led to the invention of the transistor, one of the most important creations of humanity. Transistors made integrated circuits with millions and billions of transistors possible, thanks to Moore’s law, which predicted an exponential development of digital circuit technology. These complex digital circuits made possible mobile communications, digital computers, the internet and, ultimately, the digital economy that makes modern society possible.
Catherine Zimmer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479864379
- eISBN:
- 9781479876853
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479864379.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter focuses on how surveillance cinema incorporates the consumer-subject in the era of home video, online networking, and “dataveillance.” By positing Debord’s account of the “spectacle” as ...
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This chapter focuses on how surveillance cinema incorporates the consumer-subject in the era of home video, online networking, and “dataveillance.” By positing Debord’s account of the “spectacle” as a necessary element of surveillance in a consumer economy, the chapter argues that consumer-level surveillance in cinema is best approached through “compulsive documentation” films—films shot entirely in first-person-camera style and based on the premise that the entire narrative is directly presented through “real” footage shot on consumer video equipment, such as The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity. Even as first-person and found-footage conceits seek to present a direct, individualized perspective, they are best understood as a phenomenon through their tremendously successful interactive online marketing campaigns and their diffusion of the cinematic experience into the “virtual” space of internet communities and digital economies. By showing the formal and structural contiguities between the narrative and technical elements of these films, their marketing campaigns, social media, and internet consumption, this chapter shows how co-defining subjective experience and surveillance have become in a digital economy, and the part that video mediation plays in establishing that relation.Less
This chapter focuses on how surveillance cinema incorporates the consumer-subject in the era of home video, online networking, and “dataveillance.” By positing Debord’s account of the “spectacle” as a necessary element of surveillance in a consumer economy, the chapter argues that consumer-level surveillance in cinema is best approached through “compulsive documentation” films—films shot entirely in first-person-camera style and based on the premise that the entire narrative is directly presented through “real” footage shot on consumer video equipment, such as The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity. Even as first-person and found-footage conceits seek to present a direct, individualized perspective, they are best understood as a phenomenon through their tremendously successful interactive online marketing campaigns and their diffusion of the cinematic experience into the “virtual” space of internet communities and digital economies. By showing the formal and structural contiguities between the narrative and technical elements of these films, their marketing campaigns, social media, and internet consumption, this chapter shows how co-defining subjective experience and surveillance have become in a digital economy, and the part that video mediation plays in establishing that relation.
Georgina Born
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781906897710
- eISBN:
- 9781906897802
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9781906897710.003.0025
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter advances a series of propositions concerning the ways in which the normative principles of public service media find new expression in digital conditions. If the proponents of neoliberal ...
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This chapter advances a series of propositions concerning the ways in which the normative principles of public service media find new expression in digital conditions. If the proponents of neoliberal economic thinking argue that the digital economy is best served, and best understood, in terms of the dynamics of competition operating within free markets, then the oligopolistic tendencies that have become pronounced in the last decade, manifest in the dominance of a few key digital intermediaries and in the rapid capacity to establish primacy in new digital markets, disprove such assumptions. The chapter calls for public intervention in digital media markets on several levels, each of them important, each founded on and drawing legitimacy from the expanded normative principles.Less
This chapter advances a series of propositions concerning the ways in which the normative principles of public service media find new expression in digital conditions. If the proponents of neoliberal economic thinking argue that the digital economy is best served, and best understood, in terms of the dynamics of competition operating within free markets, then the oligopolistic tendencies that have become pronounced in the last decade, manifest in the dominance of a few key digital intermediaries and in the rapid capacity to establish primacy in new digital markets, disprove such assumptions. The chapter calls for public intervention in digital media markets on several levels, each of them important, each founded on and drawing legitimacy from the expanded normative principles.
Peter F. Cowhey and Jonathan D. Aronson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190657932
- eISBN:
- 9780190657963
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190657932.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Financial Economics
The concluding chapter lays out a strategy for creating an international governance regime for the digital economy. It identifies a core “club” of nations that could champion new digital trade ...
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The concluding chapter lays out a strategy for creating an international governance regime for the digital economy. It identifies a core “club” of nations that could champion new digital trade agreements linked to stronger international agreements to advance a trusted digital environment—the Digital Economy Agreement. This agreement would revamp trade policy to adjust to the impact of the information and production disruption by improving rules for digital market integration and would create a foundation that simplifies and strengthens the ability to forge significant pacts advancing the goals of improving privacy and cybersecurity while safeguarding against protectionist trade risks. The design of these agreements emphasizes binding “soft rules” that allow significant variations in national policy trade-offs while establishing a minimum common baseline of policy through the soft rules. Expert multistakeholder organizations drawn from civil society loom large in the design for implementation of the soft rules through such avenues as mutual recognition schemes for certifying compliance with privacy and security objectives. If trade agreements prove unworkable as a starting point, such agreements could be anchored to other types of binding policy agreements. However, trade is the first best option for consideration before there is any decision to resort to second-best strategies.Less
The concluding chapter lays out a strategy for creating an international governance regime for the digital economy. It identifies a core “club” of nations that could champion new digital trade agreements linked to stronger international agreements to advance a trusted digital environment—the Digital Economy Agreement. This agreement would revamp trade policy to adjust to the impact of the information and production disruption by improving rules for digital market integration and would create a foundation that simplifies and strengthens the ability to forge significant pacts advancing the goals of improving privacy and cybersecurity while safeguarding against protectionist trade risks. The design of these agreements emphasizes binding “soft rules” that allow significant variations in national policy trade-offs while establishing a minimum common baseline of policy through the soft rules. Expert multistakeholder organizations drawn from civil society loom large in the design for implementation of the soft rules through such avenues as mutual recognition schemes for certifying compliance with privacy and security objectives. If trade agreements prove unworkable as a starting point, such agreements could be anchored to other types of binding policy agreements. However, trade is the first best option for consideration before there is any decision to resort to second-best strategies.
Aaron Perzanowski and Jason Schultz
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262035019
- eISBN:
- 9780262335959
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035019.003.0001
- Subject:
- Information Science, Library Science
This chapter observes two trends: the rise of the digital marketplace as the result of technological development and the decline of ownership due to aggressive intellectual property laws, restrictive ...
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This chapter observes two trends: the rise of the digital marketplace as the result of technological development and the decline of ownership due to aggressive intellectual property laws, restrictive contractual provisions and technological locks. Admittedly, the market offers consumers a choice between ownership and more conditional, impermanent access to goods, but because of the asymmetric information possessed by consumers and retailers or IP rights holders, consumers frequently cannot make informed decisions. This leads to the loss of control over the goods they purchase; more importantly, the lack of ownership rights has serious implications for cultural preservation, innovation and consumer autonomy. The rest of the book unfolds by detailing how consumers and IP rights holders contend for control over physical and digital goods in various areas.Less
This chapter observes two trends: the rise of the digital marketplace as the result of technological development and the decline of ownership due to aggressive intellectual property laws, restrictive contractual provisions and technological locks. Admittedly, the market offers consumers a choice between ownership and more conditional, impermanent access to goods, but because of the asymmetric information possessed by consumers and retailers or IP rights holders, consumers frequently cannot make informed decisions. This leads to the loss of control over the goods they purchase; more importantly, the lack of ownership rights has serious implications for cultural preservation, innovation and consumer autonomy. The rest of the book unfolds by detailing how consumers and IP rights holders contend for control over physical and digital goods in various areas.
Graham Room
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861347398
- eISBN:
- 9781447303787
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861347398.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter aims to examine the new knowledge-based economy. It also seeks to determine the major challenges that this economy presents for policy makers and to suggest tools which they might use ...
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This chapter aims to examine the new knowledge-based economy. It also seeks to determine the major challenges that this economy presents for policy makers and to suggest tools which they might use for monitoring change and for steering social and economic transformation. It explains that the focus on the digital economy tends to divert attention from the organisational and managerial changes that appear to be central to the new economy if the full benefits for competitiveness are to be realised. It clarifies that ICT investments must be combined with new managerial and organisational techniques and a skilled labour force that gives rise to vital competitiveness improvements.Less
This chapter aims to examine the new knowledge-based economy. It also seeks to determine the major challenges that this economy presents for policy makers and to suggest tools which they might use for monitoring change and for steering social and economic transformation. It explains that the focus on the digital economy tends to divert attention from the organisational and managerial changes that appear to be central to the new economy if the full benefits for competitiveness are to be realised. It clarifies that ICT investments must be combined with new managerial and organisational techniques and a skilled labour force that gives rise to vital competitiveness improvements.
Gabriella Giannachi
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262035293
- eISBN:
- 9780262335416
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035293.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This Chapter looks at the role played by transmission of the archive through the body, drawing from performance studies, bioart, database aesthetics and history of science to look at what becomes of ...
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This Chapter looks at the role played by transmission of the archive through the body, drawing from performance studies, bioart, database aesthetics and history of science to look at what becomes of the archive in the era of genomic experimentation. Drawing on economics, the chapter establishes the role played by the archive within the digital economy showing how the archive evolved for each of the industrial revolutions that occurred since the 18th century. Additionally, the Chapter analyzes the role played by the archive in the development of smart objects within the internet of things. The case studies for this chapter include work by the Musée de la Danse; George Legrady; Natalie Bookchin; Eduardo Kac; Christine Borland; and Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Infinity Engine, in which the human being has become its own (a-)live archive, one that, through regenerative medicine, can be modified inside out.Less
This Chapter looks at the role played by transmission of the archive through the body, drawing from performance studies, bioart, database aesthetics and history of science to look at what becomes of the archive in the era of genomic experimentation. Drawing on economics, the chapter establishes the role played by the archive within the digital economy showing how the archive evolved for each of the industrial revolutions that occurred since the 18th century. Additionally, the Chapter analyzes the role played by the archive in the development of smart objects within the internet of things. The case studies for this chapter include work by the Musée de la Danse; George Legrady; Natalie Bookchin; Eduardo Kac; Christine Borland; and Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Infinity Engine, in which the human being has become its own (a-)live archive, one that, through regenerative medicine, can be modified inside out.
Gabriella Giannachi
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780262035293
- eISBN:
- 9780262335416
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262035293.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This book traces the evolution of the archive across the centuries by looking at primitive, Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian and contemporary archives. Crucially, the book evidences the fluidity and ...
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This book traces the evolution of the archive across the centuries by looking at primitive, Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian and contemporary archives. Crucially, the book evidences the fluidity and potential inter-changeability between libraries, archives and museums. A number of case studies offer an insight into the operation of a variety of different types of archives, including cabinets of curiosity, archival artforms, architectures, performances, road-shows, time capsules, social media documentation practices, databases, and a variety of museological web-based heritage platforms. The archive is shown to play a crucial role in how individuals and social groups administer themselves through and within a burgeoning social memory apparatus. This is why at the heart of every industrial revolution thus far, the archive continues to contribute to the way we store, preserve and generate knowledge through an accumulation of documents, artifacts, objects, as well as ephemera and even debris. The archive has always been strategic for different types of economies, including the digital economy and the internet of things. Shown here to increasingly affect to the way we map, produce, and share knowledge, the apparatus of the archive, which allows us to continuously renew who we are in relation to the past, so that new futures may become possible, now effectively pervades almost every aspect of our lives.Less
This book traces the evolution of the archive across the centuries by looking at primitive, Medieval, Renaissance, Victorian and contemporary archives. Crucially, the book evidences the fluidity and potential inter-changeability between libraries, archives and museums. A number of case studies offer an insight into the operation of a variety of different types of archives, including cabinets of curiosity, archival artforms, architectures, performances, road-shows, time capsules, social media documentation practices, databases, and a variety of museological web-based heritage platforms. The archive is shown to play a crucial role in how individuals and social groups administer themselves through and within a burgeoning social memory apparatus. This is why at the heart of every industrial revolution thus far, the archive continues to contribute to the way we store, preserve and generate knowledge through an accumulation of documents, artifacts, objects, as well as ephemera and even debris. The archive has always been strategic for different types of economies, including the digital economy and the internet of things. Shown here to increasingly affect to the way we map, produce, and share knowledge, the apparatus of the archive, which allows us to continuously renew who we are in relation to the past, so that new futures may become possible, now effectively pervades almost every aspect of our lives.
Catherine Zimmer
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479864379
- eISBN:
- 9781479876853
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479864379.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Surveillance Cinema examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of surveillance. The book combines detailed close analysis of ...
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Surveillance Cinema examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of surveillance. The book combines detailed close analysis of films with contemporary media theory, political philosophy, and surveillance studies to argue that developments in cinematic and televisual narration are inseparable from the ever-widening role of surveillance in democratic state power and consumer economies. Surveillance Cinema offers analysis of some of the most significant trends in surveillance narratives ranging from Enemy of the State and the Bourne series to Caché, Saw, Paranormal Activity, Zero Dark Thirty, and 24, as well as a theoretical and historical reexamination of the relationship between cinema and surveillance that takes into consideration the formal elements of visual narrative and the technological bases of both cinema and surveillance. What Zimmer calls “surveillance cinema” refers not only to recurrent narrative tropes or the development of stylistic practices, but also to the multiple and reversible mediations of cinematic narration through which surveillance is constituted as representational and representation becomes a function of surveillance. This book thus provides a connective thread between numerous intersections of surveillance and media, including the political rhetoric of counterterrorism and genre development in action-thrillers, the historical and shifting production of racial formations through the overlapping systems of cinema and surveillance, the positioning of media consumers within a digital surveillance economy, and the use of cinematic technique to structure geopolitical identities.Less
Surveillance Cinema examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of surveillance. The book combines detailed close analysis of films with contemporary media theory, political philosophy, and surveillance studies to argue that developments in cinematic and televisual narration are inseparable from the ever-widening role of surveillance in democratic state power and consumer economies. Surveillance Cinema offers analysis of some of the most significant trends in surveillance narratives ranging from Enemy of the State and the Bourne series to Caché, Saw, Paranormal Activity, Zero Dark Thirty, and 24, as well as a theoretical and historical reexamination of the relationship between cinema and surveillance that takes into consideration the formal elements of visual narrative and the technological bases of both cinema and surveillance. What Zimmer calls “surveillance cinema” refers not only to recurrent narrative tropes or the development of stylistic practices, but also to the multiple and reversible mediations of cinematic narration through which surveillance is constituted as representational and representation becomes a function of surveillance. This book thus provides a connective thread between numerous intersections of surveillance and media, including the political rhetoric of counterterrorism and genre development in action-thrillers, the historical and shifting production of racial formations through the overlapping systems of cinema and surveillance, the positioning of media consumers within a digital surveillance economy, and the use of cinematic technique to structure geopolitical identities.
Dal Yong Jin
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262014762
- eISBN:
- 9780262289511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262014762.003.0005
- Subject:
- Computer Science, Game Studies
This chapter employs a political economy approach, particularly a Marxian analysis, on the issue of commodification in order to examine the working conditions of pro gamers as labor workers and their ...
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This chapter employs a political economy approach, particularly a Marxian analysis, on the issue of commodification in order to examine the working conditions of pro gamers as labor workers and their professional identities. The discussions cover several key issues: who these pro gamers are, how they became pro gamers, and what types of games they play. Exploring these characteristics provides a better understanding of pro gamers in Korea, particularly as a legitimate labor force in the realm of the new media. The chapter determines if the pro gamers’ world is full of existing labor issues, such as whether they experience exploitation as commodities or gendered environments. It maps out the commodification process of pro gamers as part of professional game teams owned by media, telecommunications, and other big corporations. The investigation leads to a discussion of whether professional gaming is a viable future for the youth in the digital economy.Less
This chapter employs a political economy approach, particularly a Marxian analysis, on the issue of commodification in order to examine the working conditions of pro gamers as labor workers and their professional identities. The discussions cover several key issues: who these pro gamers are, how they became pro gamers, and what types of games they play. Exploring these characteristics provides a better understanding of pro gamers in Korea, particularly as a legitimate labor force in the realm of the new media. The chapter determines if the pro gamers’ world is full of existing labor issues, such as whether they experience exploitation as commodities or gendered environments. It maps out the commodification process of pro gamers as part of professional game teams owned by media, telecommunications, and other big corporations. The investigation leads to a discussion of whether professional gaming is a viable future for the youth in the digital economy.
Adrian Kuenzler
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190698577
- eISBN:
- 9780190698607
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190698577.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Company and Commercial Law
For decades, there has been broad consensus within antitrust, intellectual property, and consumer law scholarship that consumers make decisions in their own best interests by consciously weighting ...
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For decades, there has been broad consensus within antitrust, intellectual property, and consumer law scholarship that consumers make decisions in their own best interests by consciously weighting the market’s relative prices, quantities, and qualities against each other. That consensus is unraveling in light of novel findings from cognitive and social psychology that explain how individuals’ concepts of what they prefer drive the global economy. At the same time, producers nowadays no longer merely satisfy consumers’ needs but also communicate their values, identities, and aspirations through the sale and marketing of products. As part of the growing interest in observations such as these, a wealth of psychological studies challenge the fundamental teaching of economics that the interplay of demand and supply of goods in a free market economy provides us with material wealth. This book provides a normative defense of that assumption and a theoretical framework for understanding its contradictions. It argues that the erosion of consumer sovereignty through the ability of product manufacturers and sellers to systematically take advantage of individuals’ psychological weaknesses demands a twenty-first-century reconceptualization of the consumer and a modern account of how the law should regulate the digital economy. Such an account is justified to ensure a diverse marketplace in which consumers can influence how our societies are structured and arranged. By examining the role that market manipulation plays, it offers ingredients for a realistic descriptive and normative market regulatory theory that is aware of its political economy, its behavioral suppositions, and its distributional consequences.Less
For decades, there has been broad consensus within antitrust, intellectual property, and consumer law scholarship that consumers make decisions in their own best interests by consciously weighting the market’s relative prices, quantities, and qualities against each other. That consensus is unraveling in light of novel findings from cognitive and social psychology that explain how individuals’ concepts of what they prefer drive the global economy. At the same time, producers nowadays no longer merely satisfy consumers’ needs but also communicate their values, identities, and aspirations through the sale and marketing of products. As part of the growing interest in observations such as these, a wealth of psychological studies challenge the fundamental teaching of economics that the interplay of demand and supply of goods in a free market economy provides us with material wealth. This book provides a normative defense of that assumption and a theoretical framework for understanding its contradictions. It argues that the erosion of consumer sovereignty through the ability of product manufacturers and sellers to systematically take advantage of individuals’ psychological weaknesses demands a twenty-first-century reconceptualization of the consumer and a modern account of how the law should regulate the digital economy. Such an account is justified to ensure a diverse marketplace in which consumers can influence how our societies are structured and arranged. By examining the role that market manipulation plays, it offers ingredients for a realistic descriptive and normative market regulatory theory that is aware of its political economy, its behavioral suppositions, and its distributional consequences.
