Full Description
Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, McDowell, Steinberg, and Tomasello investigate specific policy problems encountered as 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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Managing the Infosphere
Chapter 2: Managing Technological Change
Chapter 3: Scales of Governance, Governance of Scales
Chapter 4: Communication Technology, Mobility, and Cultural Consumption
Chapter 5: Internet Names, Semiotics, and Alternative Spaces of Governance
Chapter 6: Fixity, Mobility, and the Governance of Internet Names
Chapter 7: The Infosphere: A World of Places, an Ocean of Information or a Special Administrative Region?
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