[Commlist] new book: The Digital Frontier

New publication from Indiana University Press

*The Digital Frontier*

Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web

*Sangeet Kumar***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780253056498/the-digital-frontier/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9780253056498/the-digital-frontier/> _*

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The global web and its digital ecosystem can be seen as tools of 
emancipation, communication, and spreading knowledge or as means of 
control, fueled by capitalism, surveillance, and geopolitics.

/The Digital Frontier/interrogates the world wide web and the digital 
ecosystem it has spawned to reveal how their conventions, protocols, 
standards, and algorithmic regulations represent a novel form of global 
power. Sangeet Kumar shows the operation of this power through the web’s 
“infrastructures of control” visible at sites where the universalizing 
imperatives of the web run up against local values, norms, and cultures. 
These include how the idea of the “global common good” is used as a ruse 
by digital oligopolies to expand their private enclosures, how seemingly 
collaborative spaces can simultaneously be exclusionary as they regulate 
legitimate knowledge, how selfhood is being redefined online along 
Eurocentric ideals, and how the web’s political challenge is felt 
differentially by sovereign nation states.

In analyzing this new modality of cultural power in the global digital 
ecosystem, /The Digital Frontier/is an important read for scholars, 
activists, academics and students inspired by the utopian dream of a 
truly representative global digital network.

*Sangeet Kumar*is Associate Professor of Media Studies in the 
Communication Department at Denison University where he teaches and 
conducts research in the global dimensions of digital media platforms 
and culture. He also serves as the Director of the International Studies 
program at Denison. Prior to his academic career he briefly worked as a 
journalist with a leading Indian daily in New Delhi, India.


*Indiana University Press**| Framing the Global | August 2021 | 276pp 
| 9780253056498 | PB | £22.99**

*Price subject to change.

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