The Digital Era 2: Political Economy Revisited

Content: Cover
 Half-Title Page
 Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Contents
 Note to Reader
 Preface: Assessing Digital Society
 Digital expertise: the impact of technical progress
 From creative destruction to digital disruption
 Coincidence with historical events
 Expansion of cross-border networks
 The proper role of the Internet
 Back to political economy
 Measurement and assessment problems
 Questions to follow
 Bibliography
 Introduction: Political Economy Under Pressure
 The Internet, a disruptive factor
 A disruptive economy
 New perspectives
 Towards a less productive approach? Imagining new metrics?Bibliography
 PART 1: A Disruptive Economy
 Introduction to Part 1
 1. Companies: the Great Transformation
 Information: the raw material of digital technology
 Internet of Things and sensors
 Big data and algorithms
 Platforms: a kind of disruption?
 The causes of disruption and their limits
 The business philosophy of digital technology
 Moving upmarket and buybacks
 Buy start-ups?
 Concluding reflections
 Bibliography
 2. Media: Innovation, Self-production, Creativity
 User-generated content: scaling up
 The transition to mobiles and mobile Internet Consumerization of production and distributionBooks, authors and communities
 \"Fan fiction\" and communities
 Cinema and video: creation, streaming and parodies
 Short videos and portable movies
 Consumers entertain consumers
 Do it yourself with music: new creativity?
 Press and information: dialogue with readers or free work?
 Video games: co-innovators?
 New incomes
 Modders and communities
 Conclusion: creativity, but a limited model
 Bibliography
 3. New Intermediaries: Extra-territorial Platforms
 What has changed?
 Intermediation
 Platform economics
 Laws of the digital economy The two-sided digital economyRole of externalities
 Abstraction in the cloud
 Law of concentration
 Two major transformations
 Historical intermediaries under threat
 Going towards a new management of resources
 Internet generalized to objects
 Building political legitimacy
 Deep issues of concern
 Conclusion
 Bibliography
 PART 2: New Perspectives
 Introduction to Part 2
 4. The Collaborative Economy: What Are We Talking About?
 Numerous examples
 Important features of the collaborative economy
 Commercial versus collaborative peer-to-peer
 Peer-to-peer trading, the intermediation\'s triumph Mutual assessment and reputationUberization and disruption
 Future of peer-to-peer trading
 How is collaborative peer-to-peer actually organized?
 Are commons manageable?
 Community administration of a reserved good
 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
 The myth about start-ups
 Illusions about the \"Commons\"
 Can an intelligence be artificial?
 The magic of automata
 From man to machine: a quantum leap?
 Distinguishing power from intelligence