Review
"...an excellent textbook...provides very rich descriptions...should be congratulated for presenting 'hot-button' issues..." (New Media & Society, Vol 6(3), June 2004)
"...a useful book that synthesises a great deal of contemporary literature..." (Environment & Planning B: Planning and Design, Vo. 31, No.3 2004)Â
"Its collection and subsequent organization of references, as well as the clarity of its presentation, should make it highly appealing to a wide audience." (Urban Studies, July 2005)
Product Description
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. A unique book in several ways, The Internet on Earth: a Geography of Information:
- Presents readers with international, national, and urban data for various aspects of the Internet and information at large.
- Highlights geographical differences for many aspects of the Internet industry, as well as identifying leading cities and countries in information technology, information production, and information consumption.
- Addresses the interrelationships between information and information technology, as well as those between information and knowledge, notably within the context of the Internet.
