Overview
- Presents case studies from 15 countries in the post-Soviet area
- Offers a comprehensive comparative perspective on the Internet development in these countries
- Written by experts working for educational institutions and industrial organizations of the studied countries
Part of the book series: Societies and Political Orders in Transition (SOCPOT)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Characterizing the Post-Soviet Internet
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Front Matter
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Post-Soviet Countries: Special Focus
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Keywords
- Internet history
- Internet development
- Runet
- Online markets
- Telecommunications
- Online advertising
- E-commerce
- Digital content
- Internet-dependent markets
- Social and cultural aspects of the Internet
- Freedom House survey
- Freedom of press
- Media systems
- Media transformation
- Digital media
- Internet audience
- Internet regulation
- Internet policy
- Eastern Europe
- Central Asia
About this book
This book offers a comparative perspective on the technological, economic, and political aspects of Internet development in the post-Soviet countries. In doing so, international experts analyze similarities and differences in various countries throughout the chapters.
The volume consists of two parts. The chapters of the first part examine the post-Soviet area as a whole. The second part includes specific case studies on the development of the Internet, either in individual countries or in groups of countries. Countries analyzed are Estonia, Ukraine, Russia as well as three Central Asian countries: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Topics covered in the volume include, but are not limited to measurement, dynamics, and structure of each national Internet audience; the history of the Internet in the post-Soviet countries; development of infrastructure; Internet regulation and institutional aspects; online markets such as telecommunications, online advertising, e-commerce, and digital content; social and cultural aspects; as well as the transformation of the national media systems.
This book is a must-read for students, researchers, and scholars of political science and economics, as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in a better understanding of Internet development in the post-Soviet area.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Internet in the Post-Soviet Area
Book Subtitle: Technological, Economic and Political Aspects
Editors: Sergey Davydov
Series Title: Societies and Political Orders in Transition
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32507-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32506-9Published: 11 July 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-32509-0Due: 11 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-32507-6Published: 10 July 2023
Series ISSN: 2511-2201
Series E-ISSN: 2511-221X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 225
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Politics, Digital/New Media, Industrial Organization, Science and Technology Studies, Political Communication, Business Information Systems