Geographies of the Internet

ISBN-13: 9780367420420 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 368 str.

Barney Warf

Opis

This book offers a comprehensive overview of recent research on the internet, emphasizing its spatial dimensions, geospatial applications, and the numerous social and geographic implications such as the digital divide and the mobile internet.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  PART I Conceiving the history, technology, and geography of the internet  2. Is cyberspace there after all?  3. The World Wide Web as media ecology  4. Robustness and the internet: a geographic fiber-optic infrastructure perspective  5. The history of broadband  6. The mobile internet  7. Geographies of the internet in rural areas in developing countries  8. Geographies of global digital divides  PART II Political economy of the internet  9. The geography of e-commerce  10. Online retailing  11. Finance and information technologies: opposite sides of the same coin  12. E-tourism  13. The state and cyberspace: e-government geographies  14. A geography of the internet in China  PART III The internet in everyday life  15. Google Earth  16. Augmented Reality: an overview  17. Twitter  18. Neogeography  19. Ethnographic research and the internet  20. Cyber-spatial cartographies of digital diasporas  21. Wearable internet for wellness and health: interdigital territories of new technology  22. The Internet of Things

O autorze

Barney Warf is a Professor of Geography at the University of Kansas. His research and teaching interests lie within the broad domain of human geography, particularly telecommunications and the internet.