Digitalization

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This paper addresses digitalization as a phenomenon evoking a capitalist response. The paper takes a broader view of the Internet once hailed as a promoter of individual rights of communication. The paper notes the usual argument of RE Adorno/Marx et al, on cybertechnology as co-opted, in the end, by corporate capitalist agenda. The paper includes a case of a corporate response to digitalization and the loss of monopoly, the expectation of legal/state support that is in keeping with British Marxist position on capitalism, law and society. The paper includes various references.

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"The rise of cyber-technology produced much optimism to do with the prospect of the global citizen, a classless entity, in a world no longer as bound by capitalism's demarcations. However, the example of digitalization and its repercussions indicates that some patterns remain remarkably similar, in mere changes to a global business of media and communication, to generate corporate wealth, through the last century. The advent of digitalization was alarming to corporate interests expecting monopolies to continue (Dyer-Witherford, 1999). Adjustments, nonetheless, do reinforce capitalism as shown in this paper's discussion of the American recording industry."

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