In this Book
- Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion
- Book
- 2008
- Published by: Temple University Press
summary
Managing the Infosphere examines the global world of communications as a mobile space that overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states. Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, the authors investigate specific policy problems encountered when international organizations, corporations, and individual users try to "manage" a space that simultaneously contradicts and supports existing institutions and systems of governance, identity, and technology.
The authors argue that the roles of these systems in cyberspace cannot be fully understood unless they are seen as mutually constituting each other in specific historical structures, institutions, and practices. With vision and insight, the authors look beyond the Internet to examine the entire networked world, from cell phones and satellites to global tourism and business travel.
The authors argue that the roles of these systems in cyberspace cannot be fully understood unless they are seen as mutually constituting each other in specific historical structures, institutions, and practices. With vision and insight, the authors look beyond the Internet to examine the entire networked world, from cell phones and satellites to global tourism and business travel.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9781439900987
Related ISBN(s)
9781592132799, 9781592132805
MARC Record
OCLC
438721719
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2007