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Managing the infosphere : governance, technology, and cultural practice in motion / Stephen D. McDowell, Philip E. Steinberg, Tami K. Tomasello.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDowell, Stephen D., 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telecommunication policy.
- Internet--Management.
- Internet.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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:
- Managing the infosphere
- Managing technological change
- Scales of governance, governance of scales
- Communication technology, mobility, and cultural consumption
- Internet names, semiotics, and alternative spaces of governance
- Fixity, mobility, and the governance of Internet names
- The infosphere : a world of places, an ocean of information, or a special administrative region?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-226) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612329036
- 9781282329034
- 1282329030
- 9781439900987
- 1439900981
- OCLC:
- 438721719
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