New Knowledge

Blayne Haggart is an associate professor of political science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, Ontario. He is the author of Copyfight: The Global Politics of Digital Copyright Reform (2014) and co-editor of two volumes on the political economy of internet governance and knowledge governance, in addition to several journal articles on these subjects. Natasha Tusikov is an associate professor in the Department of Social Science at York University in Toronto and a research fellow with the Justice and Technoscience Lab (JusTech Lab), School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the Australian National University. Her research examines the intersection among law, crime, technology, and regulation. She is the author of Chokepoints: Global Private Regulation on the Internet (2017). She is a co-editor of Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century (2019) and co-editor of Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State? (2021). Her research has also been published in Surveillance & Society and Internet Policy Review.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionPart I: Understanding the knowledge-driven societyChapter 1: Defining knowledge: The eight principlesChapter 2: New policy challenges, new strategiesPart II: Exploring the knowledge-driven societyChapter 3: Intellectual property and the economics of controlChapter 4: Demystifying DataChapter 5: Ideology, Dataism and the New ExpertsChapter 6: Power, Data and the Private SectorChapter 7: Property and control: Who owns the Internet of Things?Chapter 8: The Data-Driven StateChapter 9: Governing DataConclusion: Thinking Beyond the MarketReferencesNotesIndexAbout the Authors

Who controls the knowledge-driven digital society? Who owns and operates data sets, algorithms, AI-bots, and other computational technologies that are rapidly shifting the power balance in democratic countries? This book offers a primer for readers interested in the impact of digital technologies on everyday life and geopolitics. Haggart and Tusikov superbly unpack the global knowledge infrastructure, analyzing its technical intricacies and its governing complexities in detail. Warmly recommended to scholars and students across the globe.