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The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet

ISBN-13: 9781473926615
Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Edited by Barney Warf
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Local release date: 28/08/2018
Format: Mixed media product (279.00mm X 215.00mm) 1120 pages Weight: 3480g
Categories: Reference works [GBC]Internet: general works [UBW]

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Google Preview: The Internet needs no introduction, and its significance today can hardly be exaggerated. Today, more people are more connected technologically to one another than at any other time in human existence. For a large share of the world's people, the Internet, text messaging, and various other forms of digital social media such as Facebook have become thoroughly woven into the routines and rhythms of daily life. The Internet has transformed how we seek information, communicate, entertain ourselves, find partners, and, increasingly, it shapes our notions of identity and community. The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet addresses the many related topics pertaining to cyberspace, email, the World Wide Web, and social media. Entries will range from popular topics such as Alibaba and YouTube to important current controversies such as Net neutrality and cyberterrorism. The goal of the encyclopedia is to provide the most comprehensive collection of authoritative entries on the Internet available, written in a style accessible to academic and non-academic audiences alike.; I am a human geographer with exceptionally wide-ranging interests. Over the years, in different professional capacities, I have had the opportunity to study a diverse plethora of topics in economic, political, and social geography. Running throughout this panoply is my interest in political economy as it pertains to the construction of space and place. I have consciously sought to position myself within the discipline at the intersections of traditional economic geography and contemporary social theory. I have found keeping a leg in each camp to be rewarding and fruitful. In this vein, my work straddles traditional quantitative, empirical approaches on the one hand and contemporary, qualitative, theoretical perspectives on the other.; Volume 1 List of Entries Reader's Guide About the Editor Contributors Introduction Entries A Entries B Entries C Entries D Entries E Volume 2 List of Entries Reader's Guide Entries F Entries G Entries H Entries I Entries J Entries K Entries L Entries M Entries N Entries O Entries P Entries Q Volume 3 List of Entries Reader's Guide Entries R Entries S Entries T Entries U Entries V Entries W Entries X Entries Y Entries Z Index; Google Preview content

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