The Political Economy of Personal Information

The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 436-457

  Gandy, Oscar H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contribution to market value of commodities incorporation into their lives; Debates, nature of productive forces failing to resolve critical issues, used in promotion of sales; Estimating value of PI, at its origin markets for personal information; Information about individuals personal information (PI), role in identification, classification; Information's intangibility, difficulty in managing control or limit access; Information, not tangible but tangible through process of abstraction and symbolic representation; Political economy of personal information; Theories of value, dominant theories of value rising and falling, changes in economy; Unpaid labor, criticism of classical economic theory feminists, mainstream excluding labor; Valuation of personal information value of PI, estimating value of information goods, troublesome

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871461005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395402.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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