TY  - BOOK
AU  - Warf,Barney
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Global Geographies of the Internet
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Geography,
SN  - 9789400712454
AV  - P87-96 
U1  - 302.2 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Economic geography
KW  - Regional planning
KW  - Urban planning
KW  - Regional economics
KW  - Spatial economics
KW  - Human geography
KW  - Communication
KW  - Social Sciences
KW  - Communication Studies
KW  - Human Geography
KW  - Economic Geography
KW  - Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
KW  - Regional/Spatial Science
N1  - 1: 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1245-4
ER  -