Cover; Half-Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Note to Reader; Preface: Assessing Digital Society; Digital expertise: the impact of technical progress; From creative destruction to digital disruption; Coincidence with historical events; Expansion of cross-border networks; The proper role of the Internet; Back to political economy; Measurement and assessment problems; Questions to follow; Bibliography; Introduction: Political Economy Under Pressure; The Internet, a disruptive factor; A disruptive economy; New perspectives; Towards a less productive approach?
Imagining new metrics?Bibliography; PART 1: A Disruptive Economy; Introduction to Part 1; 1. Companies: the Great Transformation; Information: the raw material of digital technology; Internet of Things and sensors; Big data and algorithms; Platforms: a kind of disruption?; The causes of disruption and their limits; The business philosophy of digital technology; Moving upmarket and buybacks; Buy start-ups?; Concluding reflections; Bibliography; 2. Media: Innovation, Self-production, Creativity; User-generated content: scaling up; The transition to mobiles and mobile Internet
Consumerization of production and distributionBooks, authors and communities; "Fan fiction" and communities; Cinema and video: creation, streaming and parodies; Short videos and portable movies; Consumers entertain consumers; Do it yourself with music: new creativity?; Press and information: dialogue with readers or free work?; Video games: co-innovators?; New incomes; Modders and communities; Conclusion: creativity, but a limited model; Bibliography; 3. New Intermediaries: Extra-territorial Platforms; What has changed?; Intermediation; Platform economics; Laws of the digital economy
The two-sided digital economyRole of externalities; Abstraction in the cloud; Law of concentration; Two major transformations; Historical intermediaries under threat; Going towards a new management of resources; Internet generalized to objects; Building political legitimacy; Deep issues of concern; Conclusion; Bibliography; PART 2: New Perspectives; Introduction to Part 2; 4. The Collaborative Economy: What Are We Talking About?; Numerous examples; Important features of the collaborative economy; Commercial versus collaborative peer-to-peer; Peer-to-peer trading, the intermediation's triumph
Mutual assessment and reputationUberization and disruption; Future of peer-to-peer trading; How is collaborative peer-to-peer actually organized?; Are commons manageable?; Community administration of a reserved good; Looking at the future of collaborative peer-to-peer; Conclusion; Bibliography; 5. Towards a Post-industrial iconomy; Summary of previous times; Real and imagined digital influence; The myth about start-ups; Illusions about the "Commons"; Can an intelligence be artificial?; The magic of automata; From man to machine: a quantum leap?; Distinguishing power from intelligence
