Technology and Inequality
Concentrated Wealth in a Digital World
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Beschreibung
This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the role of technology in inequality, the book will have a unifying theme of tracing wealth creation and wealth capture in the technology sector, and relating specific practices—what technology companies actually do—to larger shifts in wealth and power. A clear conceptual framework will be used to analyze key industry case studies: search engines, social media, and the ‘sharing’ economy.
This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the role of technology in inequality, the book will have a unifying theme of tracing wealth creation and wealth capture in the technology sector, and relating specific practices—what technology companies actually do—to larger shifts in wealth and power. A clear conceptual framework will be used to analyze key industry case studies: search engines, social media, and the ‘sharing’ economy.
Offers an up-to-date, academic-quality survey of technology and inequality, not limited to sociology or economics but focused on business and technology practice—how technology companies behaveUses current, business-oriented case studies: search, social media, sharing economy
Focuses on wealth concentration and financial data
Provides usable frameworks for analysis
Autor*in
Jonathan P. Allen
Themen in »Technology and Inequality«
Digital technology Financial sector Gig economy IT Intellectual property Regulation Search engine optimization Social media algorithms globalization information technology markets scalability sharing economy value creation