Internationalizing the Internet - The Co-Evolution of Influence and Technology

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 competing standards and methods for achieving a global information infrastructure. Zusammenfassung 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 competing standards and methods for achieving a global information infrastructure.

Product details

• Authors: Brung-Keun Kim, Byung-Keun Kim
• Publisher: Elgar, Edward
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.09.2005
• EAN: 9781843764977
• ISBN: 978-1-84376-497-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation series
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches