Virtual states : the Internet and the boundaries of the nation state / Jerry Everard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Everard, Jerry, 1956-

Series:

Technology and the global political economy.

Technology and the global political economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information society--Political aspects.

Information society.

Internet--Political aspects.

Internet.

Internet--Social aspects.

Nation-state.

Physical Description:

xviii, 174 p. : map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Virtual States analyses the role of the state in a globalising, wired society. Everard argues that while information technology poses fundamental challenges to the inclusionary/exclusionary 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.

Contents:

part, PART I Virtual states: theory and practice

chapter 1W(h)ither the state?

chapter 2 internet@www.history.edu

part, Part II The developing world

chapter 3 Hungry, thirsty and wired

chapter 4 Sovereignty, boundary making and the Net

Sovereignty

chapter 5 Culture and the Other on the Internet

part, Part III The developed world

chapter 6 Process: the key to the Cyborg

chapter 7 economy@internet.com

chapter 8 The @ of war

part, Part IV Internet and society

chapter 9 Virtually real/really virtual

chapter 10 Internet censorship

US, Europe and Australia

chapter 11 alt.cyberspace.binaries.philosophy.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-169) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-134-69275-7

0-415-17213-6

1-280-33303-0

0-203-02008-1

0-203-15921-7

9780203020081

OCLC:

56945655