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by Jean-Pierre Chamoux
The Digital Era 2
Cover
Note to Reader
Preface: Assessing Digital Society
Introduction: Political Economy Under Pressure
PART 1: A Disruptive Economy
Introduction to Part 1
1 Companies: the Great Transformation
Information: the raw material of digital technology
The causes of disruption and their limits
The business philosophy of digital technology
Moving upmarket and buybacks
Concluding reflections
Bibliography
2 Media: Innovation, Self-production, Creativity
User-generated content: scaling up
Books, authors and communities
Cinema and video: creation, streaming and parodies
Do it yourself with music: new creativity?
Press and information: dialogue with readers or free work?
Video games: co-innovators?
Conclusion: creativity, but a limited model
Bibliography
3 New Intermediaries: Extra-territorial Platforms
What has changed?
Intermediation
Platform economics
Laws of the digital economy
Going towards a new management of resources
Building political legitimacy
Conclusion
Bibliography
PART 2: New Perspectives
Introduction to Part 2
4 The Collaborative Economy: What Are We Talking About?
Numerous examples
Commercial versus collaborative peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer trading, the intermediation’s triumph
How is collaborative peer-to-peer actually organized?
Are commons manageable?
Looking at the future of collaborative peer-to-peer
Conclusion
Bibliography
5 Towards a Post-industrial iconomy
Summary of previous times
Real and imagined digital influence
Can an intelligence be artificial?
Distinguishing power from intelligence
In summary: towards the iconomy?
Conclusion and recommendations
Bibliography
6 The Chips Industry: Moore and Rock’s Laws
Some words about technique: where do we stand today?
High-tech production
An original economy
Rock’s law leads to concentration
De-integration, specialization and reconfiguration
How to stay in the lead pack?
Bibliography
7 Measuring and Compiling Wealth
National accounting and gross revenue
Consequences of post-industrial society
How can the digital economy be better described?
Elements for a summary
Bibliography
Appendix A. Microelectronics: a typically multinational sector
Appendix B. Trade, currencies and digital disruption
Conclusion: Wealthy Nations, Healthy Global Firms
Appendices
Appendix 1: List of Figures
Appendix 2: List of Boxes
List of Authors
Index of Names and Brands
Index of Notions
End User License Agreement
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Title Page
Table of Contents
Cover
Note to Reader
Preface: Assessing Digital Society
Introduction: Political Economy Under Pressure
PART 1: A Disruptive Economy
Introduction to Part 1
1 Companies: the Great Transformation
Information: the raw material of digital technology
The causes of disruption and their limits
The business philosophy of digital technology
Moving upmarket and buybacks
Concluding reflections
Bibliography
2 Media: Innovation, Self-production, Creativity
User-generated content: scaling up
Books, authors and communities
Cinema and video: creation, streaming and parodies
Do it yourself with music: new creativity?
Press and information: dialogue with readers or free work?
Video games: co-innovators?
Conclusion: creativity, but a limited model
Bibliography
3 New Intermediaries: Extra-territorial Platforms
What has changed?
Intermediation
Platform economics
Laws of the digital economy
Going towards a new management of resources
Building political legitimacy
Conclusion
Bibliography
PART 2: New Perspectives
Introduction to Part 2
4 The Collaborative Economy: What Are We Talking About?
Numerous examples
Commercial versus collaborative peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer trading, the intermediation’s triumph
How is collaborative peer-to-peer actually organized?
Are commons manageable?
Looking at the future of collaborative peer-to-peer
Conclusion
Bibliography
5 Towards a Post-industrial
iconomy
Summary of previous times
Real and imagined digital influence
Can an intelligence be artificial?
Distinguishing power from intelligence
In summary: towards the
iconomy
?
Conclusion and recommendations
Bibliography
6 The Chips Industry: Moore and Rock’s Laws
Some words about technique: where do we stand today?
High-tech production
An original economy
Rock’s law leads to concentration
De-integration, specialization and reconfiguration
How to stay in the lead pack?
Bibliography
7 Measuring and Compiling Wealth
National accounting and gross revenue
Consequences of post-industrial society
How can the digital economy be better described?
Elements for a summary
Bibliography
Appendix A. Microelectronics: a typically multinational sector
Appendix B. Trade, currencies and digital disruption
Conclusion: Wealthy Nations, Healthy Global Firms
Appendices
Appendix 1: List of Figures
Appendix 2: List of Boxes
List of Authors
Index of Names and Brands
Index of Notions
End User License Agreement
List of Tables
Chapter 2
Table 2.1. The modes of engagement in the UGC, by sector
Chapter 7
Table 7.1. Some major electronics and components companies
Conclusion: Wealthy Nations, Healthy Global Firms
Table C.1. Global dominance and concentration of American IT firms
List of Illustrations
Chapter 2
Figure 2.1. The evolution of the relationship between UGC and published content ...
Figure 2.2. Percentage and frequency of consumers watching YouTube, (source: [ER...
Chapter 4
Figure 4.1. Typology of collaborative economy activities
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