Peripheral View: Conceptualizing the Information Society as a Postcolonial Subject

Peripheral View: Conceptualizing the Information Society as a Postcolonial Subject

This article looks into the information society from a postcolonial subject position. It uses concepts from a postcolonial perspective and critical political economy of communication to investigate the information society. It perceives the information society as a discourse of social progress, and p...

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Published in:The international communication gazette Vol. 70; no. 2; pp. 99 - 116
Main Author: Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan, A.J.M.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England Sage Publications 01-04-2008
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Capitalism
Communication
Decolonization
Digital divide
Discourses
Imperialism
Information Society
Information superhighway
Information Technology
Markets
Multinational corporations
North and South
Political Economy
Politics
Postcolonialism
Social Progress
Utopias
information society
political economy
South
capitalism
North
post-colonialism
imperialism
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Summary:This article looks into the information society from a postcolonial subject position. It uses concepts from a postcolonial perspective and critical political economy of communication to investigate the information society. It perceives the information society as a discourse of social progress, and places it in historical context to show how imperial powers use discourses of progress to establish their control. It argues that when the information society is perceived from the South, it turns out to be a new imperial project designed to create markets for multinational corporations that own and operate information technologies, the engine of the information society. It also proposes an amendment — an anti-market utopia — to the information society to make it meaningful for the people of the South.
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ISSN:1748-0485
1748-0493
DOI:10.1177/1748048507086907