The Internet on earth : a geography of information / Aharon Kellerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kellerman, Aharon.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet.

Web sites--Location.

Web sites.

Cyberspace.

Information services--Location.

Information services.

Information society.

Physical Description:

xv, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley, [2002]

Summary:

In today's communication-driven society, 'information' is an economic and commercial product that has a geography of locations, flows and geographical impacts. The Internet on Earth: a Geography of Information provides the first systematic treatment for the geography of information and the Internet in light of information technology.

This book provides readers with the contexts and basic notions of information and Internet geography, and then considers the major phases of its dimensions and operations through technology, production, contents, transmission, the media and consumption of information.

The Internet on Earth: a Geography of Information is an essential read for student and academic geographers and information scientists, especially those interested in information and telecommunications, urban and economic geography. It will also be of interest to professionals working in telecommunications and information technology.

Contents:

1 Contexts 1

1.1 Information and Knowledge 1

1.1.1 The information sequence 2

1.1.2 Information classification 4

1.1.3 Knowledge classification 6

1.1.4 Information, knowledge, and geography 7

1.2 The Information Society 9

1.2.1 Processes leading to the information society 11

1.2.2 Information-rich society (1960s-1970s) 12

1.2.3 Information-based society (1980s-1990s) 13

1.2.4 Information-dominated society (1990s-2000s) 14

1.3 The Information Economy 15

1.3.1 Major elements of the information economy 16

1.3.2 Media 18

1.3.3 Operators 19

1.3.4 Information economic geography 21

1.4 Information Politics 22

1.5 Information Law 25

2.1 The Scope of Information Geography 29

2.2 Space 31

2.2.1 Social space 31

2.2.2 The real and the virtual 33

2.3 Place 39

2.3.1 Interpretations of place 39

2.3.2 Globalization 41

2.3.3 The global and the local 43

2.3.4 Place production 49

3 Technology 53

3.1 Information and Technology 53

3.2 Technology and Flows 54

3.3 Knowledge [characters not reproducible] Innovation [characters not reproducible] Technology 57

3.3.1 Knowledge for innovation 58

3.3.2 Regions of knowledge and innovation 60

3.3.3 The innovation process 62

3.3.4 The innovation process and the regional economy 64

3.4 Information Technology Regions 68

3.4.1 IT regions worldwide 68

3.4.2 IT R&D and production in selected countries 74

4 Production 81

4.1 Information Volumes and Origins 81

4.1.1 How much? 81

4.1.2 From where? 83

4.2 The Internet: Evolution and Structure 85

4.2.1 Essence 85

4.2.2 Evolution 87

4.2.3 Structure 89

4.3 A Conceptual Framework for Information Production 91

4.3.1 Process 91

4.3.2 Location 92

4.4 Ranking Urban Centers of Information Production 95

4.4.1 A global view 96

4.4.2 The U.S. 97

4.4.3 Europe 98

4.4.4 Asia 100

4.5 Global Centers: New York and Los Angeles 101

4.5.1 Global centrality 101

4.5.2 New York 103

4.5.3 Los Angeles 106

4.6 IT R&D and Information Production 109

5.1 Content Demand and Location 113

5.2 Capital as Information 119

5.2.1 Capital, space and information 119

5.2.2 Flows 120

5.2.3 Management 122

5.2.4 Urban expressions 124

5.3 E-Commerce and Location 127

5.3.1 Nature 127

5.3.2 Structure 128

5.3.3 Geography 131

5.3.4 Vendors 132

5.4 Geographic Language 133

5.4.1 Space, place and communications media 133

5.4.2 Simulation 135

5.4.3 Language and metaphor 136

5.4.4 Virtual communities 137

6 Transmission 139

6.1 The Internet Backbones 140

6.1.2 The U.S. 141

6.1.3 Europe 146

6.1.4 Global view 146

6.1.5 Switching facilities 148

6.1.6 Hosting facilities 152

6.2 Flows 153

6.3 U.S. Leadership in Telecommunications 155

6.3.1 The historical development of U.S. leadership 155

7 Media 161

7.1 Leading Nations 161

7.1.1 Relative advantage in telecommunications at the national level 162

7.1.2 Leading nations in 1975 163

7.1.3 Leading nations in 1986 165

7.1.4 Leading nations in 1995 166

7.1.5 Leading nations in 1999 167

7.1.6 Factors of leadership 171

7.2 The Digital Divide 176

7.2.2 International 177

7.2.3 Intranational 180

8 Consumption 185

8.1 Social Uses of the Internet 186

8.1.1 Networking 186

8.1.2 Individualism 188

8.2 Internet Consumption in Cities 188

8.2.1 Penetration rates in American cities 188

8.2.2 Penetration rates in Asian cities 191

8.2.3 Use 192

8.3 Use and Location 193

8.3.1 Geolocation 194

8.3.2 Wireless information transmission 195

8.4 Broadband 198

8.4.1 Diffusion by country 199

8.4.2 Penetration rates by cities 201

9 Beyond 205

9.1 Challenges 205

9.2 Geography of Information 208

9.3 Geography of Information? 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-238) and index.

ISBN:

0470844507

OCLC:

50166701