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Global Geographies of the Internet

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Barney Warf

    1. , Department of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

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  • Concise summary or origins, growth, and contemporary geographies of the internet
  • International review of digital divides
  • Regional analyses of internet censorship, e-commerce, and e-government worldwide
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Geography (BRIEFSGEOGRAPHY)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Barney Warf
    Pages 1-7

  3. Origins, Growth, and Geographies of the Global Internet

    • Barney Warf
    Pages 9-44

  4. Global Internet Censorship

    • Barney Warf
    Pages 45-75

  5. Global E-Commerce

    • Barney Warf
    Pages 77-113

  6. Global E-Government

    • Barney Warf
    Pages 115-138

  7. Social Media

    • Barney Warf
    Pages 139-166
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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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  • , Department of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA

    Barney Warf

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