Maintaining the digital hub: locating the community technology center in a communication infrastructure

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Hayden ◽  
Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach
Keyword(s):  
Communication Infrastructure ◽  
Technology Center ◽  
Community Technology Center ◽  
Community Technology

Department of Education Community Technology Center grant allocations

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 305
Author(s):  
Lai C. Liu ◽  
Kai S. Koong ◽  
Sunaina Chugani
Keyword(s):  
Department Of Education ◽  
Technology Center ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Community Technology Center ◽  
Community Technology ◽  
Grant Allocations

NIE picks Harvard as technology center

1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colleen Cordes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Technology Center

СОЦИАЛЬНО-ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКИЕ КОНФЛИКТЫ В РАМКАХ «КАПИТАЛИЗМА ПЛАТФОРМ»

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
L. V. Tomin
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Network Effects ◽  
Corporate Control ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Potential Threat ◽  
Communication Infrastructure ◽  
Political Effects ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Integrated Information

The article is devoted to the analysis of the structure, the peculiarities of functioning and the socio-economic and political effects of the «platform capitalism». The basis of this model is the network effects produced by the integrated information and communication infrastructure, which contribute to the monopolization and the constant expansion of platform companies into new areas. The principle of functioning of this infrastructure is the continuous collection and further monetization of data extracted from the interactions of individuals among themselves or with one of the elements of a digitalized economy or government structures. Such an infrastructure — forms a potential threat of strengthening state and corporate control over citizens. In addition, the activities of platform companies produce negative effects on the labor market, reinforcing the process of precarization of employment. The integrated information and communication infrastructure of platform companies form a system of a kind of «digital Taylorism», which deprives the employee of autonomy and privacy in the workplace. The influence of digitalization, subjected to the technocratic logic of the neoliberal model of governance in democratic countries, strengthens the de-politicization of relations between the citizen and the state and further changes the balance of power between labor and capital in favor of the latter. Large-scale protests of the last years against the companies of “capitalism of platforms” demonstrated the structural contradictions of this model and formed new forms of organization and actions of grassroots workers of the “digital economy”.

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