The Digital Economy and Variegated Capitalism

2015/11/25 by Luis F. Alvarez León, Luis Felipe Alvarez León
Engineering · Social Sciences · #China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance #Digital Economy and Work Transformation #ICT Impact and Policies

paper · pdf · doi:10.22230/cjc.2015v40n4a2952

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Abstract

This article sets out to conceptualize the ways in which the development of the digital economy (Malecki & Moriset, 2007) can be understood within the framework of variegated capitalism (Peck & Theodore, 2007). In doing so, it explores the question of how communication technologies interact with place-specific institutional, political, and economic configurations to shape the geographically differentiated construction of an economy centred on the production, distribution, and consumption of digital information. These interactions are examined through the development of geolocation technologies and their impact on a variety of approaches to jurisdiction over the Internet.

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