Standardization and digital enclosure the privatization of standards, knowledge, and policy in the age of global information technology /

• Main Author: Schoechle, Timothy D.
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Series: Advances in IT standards and standardization research series.
• Subjects: Information technology > Standards.; Privatization.; Consortia legitimation arguments; Discourse on structure of standardization; Divergent systems and cultures; Global context of standardization; Relevant discourses and social practices; Standardization system; Taxonomy of standards; Theoretical and methodological approaches; Political economy; Taxonomy of arguments and discourses; U.S. standardization system
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xxv, 358 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-236) and index.
• ISBN: 9781605663357 (PDF); 1605663352 (PDF)
• ISSN: 1935-3391
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"This study of the privatization of standards and standardization seeks to establish a framework of analysis for public policy discussion and debate with such related issues as technical innovation, access to information and media, intellectual property, and emerging industrial economic development"--Provided by publisher.