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100 1 _aWarf, Barney.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aGlobal Geographies of the Internet
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Barney Warf.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2013.
300 _aVII, 166 p. 24 illus.
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aSpringerBriefs in Geography,
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505 0 _a1: Introduction -- 2: Origins, Growth, and Geographies of the  Global Internet -- 3: Global Internet Censorship -- 4: Global E-Commerce -- 5: Global E-Government -- 6: Social Media -- 7: References.
520 _aToday, 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.
650 0 _aSocial sciences.
650 0 _aGeography.
650 0 _aRegional planning.
650 0 _aRegional economics.
650 0 _aHuman Geography.
650 1 4 _aSocial Sciences.
650 2 4 _aCommunication Studies.
650 2 4 _aHuman Geography.
650 2 4 _aEconomic Geography.
650 2 4 _aLandscape/Regional and Urban Planning.
650 2 4 _aRegional/Spatial Science.
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