Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 300 p)
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ill
ISBN:
9781845426750
Series Statement:
New horizons in the economics of innovation
Content:
This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the Internet's adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over competing standards and methods for achieving a global information infrastructure
Content:
1. Introduction -- 2. Socioeconomic design of technological systems -- 3. Economics and politics of telecommunications systems -- 4. The design of data network systems : competing and collaborating technologies -- 5. The evolution of the Internet system -- 6. Internationalization and digital divide -- 7. Co-evolution : localization of the Internet system -- 8. Conclusion
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1843764970
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781843764977 (hardback)
Additional Edition:
Available in another form ISBN 9781843764977 (hardback)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4337/9781845426750
URL:
Deutschlandweit zugänglich
URL:
Deutschlandweit zugänglich
