Format:
Online-Ressource (VII, 166 p. 24 illus, online resource)
ISBN:
9789400712454
Series Statement:
SpringerBriefs in Geography 1
Content:
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
Content:
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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Description based upon print version of record
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Global Geographiesof the Internet; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1…Conceptions and Misconceptions About Information Systems; 1.2…The Rise of the Networked Society; 1.3…Outline of this Volume; References; 2 Origins, Growth, and Geographies of the Global Internet; 2.1…Fiber Optic Networks and Satellites; 2.2…Origins and Growth of the Internet; 2.3…Digital Divides; 2.4…Regional Geographies of the Global Internet; 2.4.1 North America; 2.4.2 Europe; 2.4.3 Russia; 2.4.4 Central Asia; 2.4.5 East Asia; 2.4.6 Southeast Asia; 2.4.7 South Asia; 2.4.8 Arab World; 2.4.9 Sub-Saharan Africa
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5.3.2 Europe5.3.3 East Asia; 5.3.4 Southeast Asia; 5.3.5 South Asia; 5.3.6 Central Asia; 5.3.7 Middle East; 5.3.8 Sub-Saharan Africa; 5.3.9 Latin America; 5.3.10 Oceania; 5.4…Conclusion; References; 6 Social Media; 6.1…Mobile Phones, the Internet, and the Networked Society; 6.2…Telemediated Networks and the Relational Ontology of the Self; 6.3…Progressive Political Uses of Social Media; 6.4…Conclusions; References;
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2.4.10 Latin America and the Caribbean2.5…Conclusions; References; 3 Global Internet Censorship; 3.1…Motivations and Mechanisms of Internet Censorship; 3.2…Regional Configurations of Internet Censorship; 3.2.1 China; 3.2.2 Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus; 3.2.3 South Asia; 3.2.4 Southeast Asia; 3.2.5 Central Asia; 3.2.6 Middle East; 3.2.7 Subsaharan Africa; 3.2.8 Latin America; 3.2.9 Europe; 3.2.10 United States; 3.3…Discussion: A Habermasian Critique; 3.4…Conclusions; References; 4 Global E-Commerce; 4.1…Global Cities and the Limits to the Internet Economy; 4.2…Electronic Funds Transfer Systems
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4.3…Offshore Banking4.4…Back Office and Call Center Relocations; 4.5…VOIPocalypse Now; 4.6…E-tailing, Tourism, Distance Learning, and Internet Gambling; 4.7…Regional Geographies of E-Commerce; 4.7.1 North America; 4.7.2 Europe; 4.7.3 Russia; 4.7.4 East Asia; 4.7.5 Southeast Asia; 4.7.6 South Asia; 4.7.7 Latin America; 4.7.8 Middle East; 4.7.9 Sub-Saharan Africa; 4.7.10 Central Asia; 4.7.11 Oceania; 4.8…Conclusions; References; 5 Global E-Government; 5.1…A Multiplicity of E-Government Models; 5.2…E-Government and Digital Divides; 5.3…Global Variations in E-Government; 5.3.1 North America
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789400712447
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Warf, Barney, 1956 - Global geographies of the Internet Dordrecht : Springer, 2013 ISBN 9400712448
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789400712447
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Internet
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Gesellschaft
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Politik
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Internet
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Gesellschaft
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Politik
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-007-1245-4
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