Global Geographies of the Internet (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
166
Utgivningsdatum
2012-08-01
Upplaga
2013
Förlag
Springer
Illustratör/Fotograf
24 schwarz-weiße Abbildungen
Illustrationer
24 Illustrations, black and white; VII, 166 p. 24 illus.
Dimensioner
234 x 156 x 10 mm
Vikt
254 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Paperback / softback
ISBN
9789400712447

Global Geographies of the Internet

av Barney Warf
Häftad,  Engelska, 2012-08-01
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Today, roughly 2 billion people use the internet, and its applications have flourished in number and importance. This volume will examine the growth and geography of the internet from a political economy perspective. Its central motivation is to illustrate that cyberspace does not exist in some aspatial void, but is deeply rooted in national and local political and cultural contexts. Toward that end, it will invoke a few major theorists of cyberspace, but apply their perspectives in terms that are accessible to readers with no familiarity with them. Beyond summaries of the infrastructure that makes the internet possible and global distributions of users, it delves into issues such as the digital divide to emphasize the inequalities that accompany the growth of cyberspace. It also addresses internet censorship, e-commerce, and e-government, issues that have received remarkably little scholarly attention, particularly from a spatial perspective. Throughout, it demonstrates that in cyberspace, place matters, so that no comprehensive understanding of the internet can be achieved without considering how it is embedded within, and in turn changes, local institutional and political contexts. Thus the book rebuts simplistic death of distance views or those that assert there is, or can be, a one-size-fits-all, cookie-cutter model of the internet applicable to all times and places.
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1: Introduction.- 2: Origins, Growth, and Geographies of the Global Internet.- 3: Global Internet Censorship.- 4: Global E-Commerce.- 5: Global E-Government.- 6: Social Media.- 7: References

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