As you introduce yourself to this book, you might find it useful to consider many of the significant ways in which (not) having access to the Internet can alter how you interact with the world around you, such as: • How you create, get, and distribute information: The Internet might enable you...

Across the globe, daily economic, social, and political activities increasingly revolve around the use of content on the Internet. This content influences our understandings of, and interactions with, our social environment. Yet it is remarkable how little we know about the broader contexts in...

Information and communication technologies shape economic spaces, transactions, and relationships, and are often promoted as an essential development strategy in both rich and poor countries. But development strategies often rest on very particular understandings of the ways in which ICTs...