This groundbreaking book analyses the geography of the commercial Internet industry. It presents the first accurate map of Internet domains in the world, by country, by region, by city, and for the United States, by neighborhood.

• Demonstrates the extraordinary spatial concentration of the Internetindustry.
  
• Explains the geographic features of the high tech venture capital behind the Internet economy.
  
• Demonstrates how venture capitalists' abilities to create and use tacit knowledge contributes to the clustering of the internet...

The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives.

• Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet.


• Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.


• Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area.


• Studies are based on empirical data.


• Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or...

The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives.

• Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet.


• Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.


• Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area.


• Studies are based on empirical data.


• Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or...

This groundbreaking book analyses the geography of the commercial Internet industry. It presents the first accurate map of Internet domains in the world, by country, by region, by city, and for the United States, by neighborhood.

• Demonstrates the extraordinary spatial concentration of the Internetindustry.
  
• Explains the geographic features of the high tech venture capital behind the Internet economy.
  
• Demonstrates how venture capitalists' abilities to create and use tacit knowledge contributes to the clustering of the internet...

This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale.

• Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society
• Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy
• Describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation
• Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe