Global Geographies of the Internet

• Main Author: Warf, Barney. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography, 1
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Geography.; Regional planning.; Regional economics.; Human Geography.; Social Sciences.; Communication Studies.; Economic Geography.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Regional/Spatial Science.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1245-4

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 aspa...

Table of Contents:

• 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.