With an ever-growing number of users, the Internet is central to the processes of globalization, cultural formations … over disclosure, access and regulation are only the most visible signs that the Internet is quickly becoming a site of … politics of the Internet intensifies, this book will be a valuable guide for anyone seeking to understand the emergence …

Manuel Castells--one of the world's pre-eminent social scientists--has drawn together a stellar group of contributors … analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional transformation of societies around the world in terms of the critical … -- pt. 3. The network economy -- pt. 4. Sociability and social structure in the age of the Internet -- pt. 5. The Internet …

modelling, to illustrate how the Internet both follows, and at the same time challenges, more traditional geographies. Emmanouil … Tranos explores the spatiality of the Internet, its physical infrastructure, and the geographic and socio-economic factors … that shape its spatial distribution. He shows that although the Internet is a technical system with strong topological …

This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the … Internet's adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over … Internet system -- 6. Internationalization and digital divide -- 7. Co-evolution : localization of the Internet system -- 8 …

The proliferation of new information technologies throughout the world has raised some important questions for …

developments; international entrepreneurship and the internet as a developing research agenda; contacts links and networks as …. International entrepreneurship and the Internet : a developing research agenda -- pt. 5. Contacts, links and networks : process …