Critiquing Communication Innovation: New Media in a Multipolar World Hoyng Rolien
Critiquing Communication Innovation: New Media in a Multipolar World Hoyng Rolien Challenges to Silicon Valley's dominant role in conjuring and patenting the world's technological futures are arising…
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Critiquing Communication Innovation: New Media in a Multipolar World Hoyng Rolien
Challenges to Silicon Valley's dominant role in conjuring and patenting the world's technological futures are arising around the world. Yet recovering our ability to imagine futures otherwise requires negotiating conditions--economic, geopolitical, sociocultural, and ecological--rather than reproducing them under the pretext of breaking with the present. As digital media technologies emerge from new, globally dispersed locations, a multipolar order of communication innovation seems to be in the making.
Paying due attention to China's rise as an innovative platform society and AI powerhouse, this book addresses the broader question of a shifting world order and trends that are shaped by China's influence but that extend beyond its borders. The essays in this volume examine research on such conditions critically and comparatively in a variety of geographies. Looking at multipolar