| 书目名称 | Global Geographies of the Internet | | 编辑 | Barney Warf | | 视频video | | | 概述 | 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 worldwid | | 丛书名称 | SpringerBriefs in Geography | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 contex | | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | | 关键词 | Cyberspace; E-commerce; E-government; Geography; Internet | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1245-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-007-1244-7 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-007-1245-4Series ISSN 2211-4165 Series E-ISSN 2211-4173 | | issn_series | 2211-4165 | | copyright | The Author(s) 2013 |
The information of publication is updating
|
|
发表于 2025-3-21 19:01:26
