- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-7
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Origins, Growth, and Geographies of the Global Internet
Pages 9-44
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Global Internet Censorship
Pages 45-75
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Global E-Commerce
Pages 77-113
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Global E-Government
Pages 115-138
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Global Geographies of the Internet
- Authors
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- Barney Warf
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Geography
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-1245-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-1245-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-1244-7
- Series ISSN
- 2211-4165
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 166
- Number of Illustrations
- 24 b/w illustrations
- Topics
