Success, threats and potential dangers of GAFAMs

Jacques Fontanel ()
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble-UGA - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Abstract: GAFAMs dominate the world of information and knowledge highways. Their technological, economic and financial successes are remarkable. However, their quasi-monopoly situation constitutes a danger for the world, both by the power of their actions on the economic and political world, by their disinterest in financing public services, by their ability to use and reproduce information to their advantage and to produce important biases on political choices and freedom of expression. R

Keywords: GAFAM; Freedom; Monopole; Internet (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-01-27
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Published in Guerres et conflits économiques, Institut libre d'étude des relations internationales (ILERI), Jan 2020, Paris, France

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