VIRTUAL STATES

ISBN-13: 9780415172141 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 196 str.

Jerry Everard

Opis

This text analyzes the role of the state in a globalizing, wired society. The author argues that while information technology poses fundamental challenges to the inclusionary/exclusionary processes of state-making, this will not mean the decline but rather the mutation of the state. He looks at the different ways in which states react to the wired society in the developing and developed worlds and the impact of these reactions on those excluded from this society.

Spis treści

PART I Virtual states: theory and practice 1 W(h)ither the state? 2 internet@www.history.edu PART II The developing world 3 Hungry, thirsty and wired 4 Sovereignty, boundary making and the Net 5 Culture and the Other on the Internet PART III The developed world 6 Process: the key to the Cyborg 7 economy@internet.com 8 The @ of war PART IV Internet and society 9 Virtually real/really virtual 10 Internet censorship: US, Europe and Australia 11 alt.cyberspace.binaries.philosophy

O autorze

Jerry Everard is in the Department of English and Theatre Studies at the Australian National University. This book was written while on secondment from the Department of Defence in Canberra and does not necessarily reflect official Australian government views.