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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Political economy of information"”.
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Toward a political economy of information capital.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics. Thesis. 1971. Ph.D.
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New information technologies in the old political economy : an exploration of community-based GIS for improving basic services for the poor in New Delhi, India
… neighborhood-level data, and the multiplicity of overlapping agencies in mega-cities in the developing world are creating a significant gap between citizens, particularly the poor, and government. Rising poverty rates have led NGOs and government actors to explore the role of community-based …
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INDIGENOUS CONTESTATIONS OF SHIFTING PROPERTY REGIMES: LAND CONFLICTS AND THE NGOBE IN BOCAS DEL TORO, PANAMA
… to legitimate their claims to land in a climate of shifting property regimes, when other differentially empowered claims to land may also be morally and/or legally legitimate. The study addresses these issues by using the example of the indigenous Ngobe’s experience of land conflicts produced in …
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Behind the search box: the political economy of a global Internet industry
With the rapid proliferation of the Web, the search engine constituted an increasingly vital tool in everyday life, and offered technical capabilities that might have lent themselves under different circumstances to a sweeping democratization of information provision and access. Instead the search …
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“Procure, propagate, and distribute among the people”: the information services of the U.S Department of Agriculture, 1862–1888
Prior to the establishment of the Department of Agriculture in 1862 and concurrent with its growth and development, farmers had myriad ways of sharing and communicating agricultural information. Some of that information was rooted in experimental practice but much of it was anecdotal and based on …