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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Examines the world of communications as a space of mobility that overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states. This book investigates specific policy problems encountered as international organizations try to "manage" a space that contradicts and supports existing systems of governance, identity, and technology. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Managing the Infosphere; 2: Managing Technological Change; 3: Scales of Governance! Governance of Scales; 4: Communication Technology! Mobility! and Cultural Consumption; 5: Internet Names! Semiotics! and Alternative Spaces of Governance; 6: Fixity! Mobility! and the Governance of Internet Names; 7: The Infosphere: A World of Places! an Ocean of Information or a Special Administrative Region?
List of 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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About the author
Stephen D. McDowell is John H. Phipps Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication at Florida State University. He is the author of Globalization, Liberalization, and Policy Change: A Political Economy of India's Communications Sector.
Philip E. Steinberg is an Associate Professor of Geography at Florida State University. He is the author of The Social Construction of the Ocean and co-editor (with Rob Shields) of The Urban After Katrina: Place, Community, Connections, and Memory.
Tami K. Tomasello is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication, East Carolina University.
