Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
1 About Technology
1 Artefact and Technological Systems
2 Developing Artefacts and Technological Systems
3 Society and Technology
4 Technology and Society
5 Summary: The Technological Regulation Approach
6 Values Base to Analyse Technology under Capitalism
2 Technology and Capitalist Development
1 Technology and the Economic Sphere
2 Technology and the Political–Institutional Sphere
3 Technology and the Cultural Sphere
3 Information and Communication Technologies and Neoliberalism
1 Context: The 1970s Crisis, Neoliberalism and ICT S
2 Technology and the Economic Sphere: ICT S and Their Impacts on the Economy
3 Impacts on Labour Relations
4 Impacts on Competition Dynamics
4 The Technological Paradigm of Information and Communications Technologies
1 Structural Technologies: The Internet
2 Infrastructure: High-Speed Data Networks (Broadband)
3 Core Input: Microprocessors
4 Carrier Branch: Computers
5 Emerging Technologies: Big Data, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence
5 Digital Platforms
1 Definitions
2 Characteristics
3 Typology of Digital Platforms
4 Production Process and Labour Relations
5 Competition on Platforms
5.1 Business Models
5.2 Market Structure
5.3 Competitive Strategies
6 Digital Monopolies
7 Legislation and the Debate on Legal Regulation
6 Google
1 General Technological Trajectory
2 Rules
3 Ownership, Control and Management Structure
4 Production Process
5 Competitive Performance
6 System Components and Technical Resources
6.1 Other Bets
7 Dissemination
8 Appropriation
9 Relationship with the Values Base
9.1 Rights Promotion and Guarantees
Damages and Violation of Rights
10 The Technological System’s Impact on Society
11 Analytical Overview: Google and the Fight For Online Information Control
7 Facebook
1 General Technological Trajectory
2 Rules
3 Ownership, Control and Management Structure
4 Production Process
5 Competitive Performance
6 System Components and Technical Resources
6.1 Primary Technological System: Facebook
6.1.1 Information (Newsfeed and Timeline)
6.1.2 Connections (Friends, Groups, Pages and Events)
6.1.3 Transactions
6.1.4 Platform
6.2 Secondary Subsystems
7 Dissemination
8 Appropriation
9 Relationship with the Values Base
9.1 Rights, Promotion and Guarantees
9.2 Damages and Violation of Rights
10 The Technological System’s Impact on Society
11 Analytical Overview: Facebook and the Fight for Online Information Control
8 Final Considerations
References
Index
