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9 produkter
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Bridging the Digital Divide investigates problems of unequal access to information technology. The author redefines this problem, examines its severity, and lays out what the future implications might be if the digital divide continues to exist. Examines unequal access to information technology in the United States.Analyses the success or failure of policies designed to address the digital divide.Draws on extensive fieldwork in several US cities.Makes recommendations for future public policy.Series editor: Manuel Castells.
564 kr
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Bridging the Digital Divide investigates problems of unequal access to information technology. The author redefines this problem, examines its severity, and lays out what the future implications might be if the digital divide continues to exist. Examines unequal access to information technology in the United States.Analyses the success or failure of policies designed to address the digital divide.Draws on extensive fieldwork in several US cities.Makes recommendations for future public policy.Series editor: Manuel Castells.
Geography of the Internet Industry
Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge
Inbunden, Engelska, 2005
1 267 kr
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This groundbreaking book analyses the geography of the commercial Internet industry. It presents the first accurate map of Internet domains in the world, by country, by region, by city, and for the United States, by neighborhood. Demonstrates the extraordinary spatial concentration of the Internetindustry.Explains the geographic features of the high tech venture capital behind the Internet economy.Demonstrates how venture capitalists' abilities to create and use tacit knowledge contributes to the clustering of the internet industryDraws on in-depth interviews and field work in San Francisco Bay Area and New York City.
Geography of the Internet Industry
Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
538 kr
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This groundbreaking book analyses the geography of the commercial Internet industry. It presents the first accurate map of Internet domains in the world, by country, by region, by city, and for the United States, by neighborhood. Demonstrates the extraordinary spatial concentration of the Internetindustry.Explains the geographic features of the high tech venture capital behind the Internet economy.Demonstrates how venture capitalists' abilities to create and use tacit knowledge contributes to the clustering of the internet industryDraws on in-depth interviews and field work in San Francisco Bay Area and New York City.
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The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet.Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area.Studies are based on empirical data.Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet.
564 kr
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The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet.Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area.Studies are based on empirical data.Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet.
405 kr
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This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of societyIncludes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economyDescribes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformationBased on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe
392 kr
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In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy. Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio-political landscape of our worldApplies Castells’ hypotheses to contemporary issues such as Al Qaeda and global terrorist networks, American unilateralism and the crisis of political legitimacy throughout the worldA brilliant account of social, cultural, and political conflict and struggle all over the worldAnalyzes the importance of cultural, religious, and national identity as sources of meaning for people, and its implications for social movementThrows new light on the dynamics of global and local change
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END OF MILLENNIUM This final volume in Manuel Castells’ trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the twentieth century as an expression of the crises resulting from the transition between the old industrial society and the emerging global network society. “Every now and then one reads a book of social science that is uplifting and mind expanding. These books are ambitious and lustrous, teaching us much about our world. Such is this work from the brilliant sociologist Manuel Castells. There is no other sociological work today that brings together in one panoramic expanse so many of the changes now occurring. This is a story not simply of global economic change, but of cultural upheavals. It is a tale not simply of the decline of sovereign states, but of the emergence of the new bases of power. And it is a narrative not merely about computer technology or the media, but of the very terms in which those agents work.”Anthony M. Orum, Contemporary Sociology “A magnum opus if ever there was one. In my view, the finest piece of contemporary social analysis for at least a generation.”Frank Webster, British Journal of Sociology “A truly stunning achievement. A scholar who, with remarkable mastery, has brought his experience over a lifetime to bear on astonishingly diversified data set, pulling them together into a compelling account of the complex relationship between the progressive and the reactionary, the globalizing and particularizing forces that are transforming our perplexing world.” Benjamin Barber, The Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Reviews