| Description |
xviii, 174 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Technology and global political economy |
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Technology and global political economy
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| Contents |
Pt. I. Virtual states: theory and practice. 1. W(h)ither the state? 2. internet@www.history.edu -- Pt. II. The developing world. 3. Hungry, thirsty and wired. 4. Sovereignty, boundary making and the Net. 5. Culture and the Other on the Internet -- Pt. III. The developed world. 6. Process: the key to the Cyborg. 7. economy@internet.com. 8. The @ of war -- Pt. IV. Internet and society. 9. Virtually real/really virtual. 10. Internet censorship: US, Europe and Australia. 11. alt.cyberspace.binaries.philosophy |
| Summary |
Virtual States analyses the role of the state in a globalising, wired society controversially arguing that a wired society will not, as some commentators claim, mean the end of the nation state as we know it. The book begins by giving a brief history of the Internet and goes on to address issues of real contemporary concern such as Internet censorship. Within this context, Everard argues that while information technology poses fundamental challenges to the basic processes of state-making, this will not mean the decline but rather the mutation of the state. Everard goes on to look at the different ways in which states react to the wired society in the developing and developed worlds and the impact of these reactions on those excluded from this society. [publisher] |
| Analysis |
Censorship |
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Information society |
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International comparisons |
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Internet |
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Nation state |
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National identity |
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Overseas item |
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Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi |
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Social change |
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Technological change |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Information society -- Political aspects.
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Internet -- Political aspects.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Nation-state.
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| LC no. |
99020772 |
| ISBN |
0415172136 |
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0415172144 |
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