Cyberimperialism

Author : Bosah Ebo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313095535

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Cyberimperialism? by Bosah Ebo Pdf

This collection of essays addresses whether all nations will actively participate in building the information superhighway or whether the Internet will reflect global technological inequalities. The writings are grouped in four major sections, which examine theoretical issues on cyberglobalization, politics in the electronic global village, global economic issues in cyberspace, and national identities and grassroots movements in cyberspace. Contributing scholars represent a wide spectrum of disciplines from political science, economics, and communications to sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. A number of methodological and theoretical perspectives direct the writings. Collectively, the essays point toward an emerging technology that exhibits innate qualities characteristic of the classic notion of cultural imperialism. This edited collection, with its timely approach to the implications of the Internet for global relations, will appeal to communication, sociology, and political science scholars. The interdisciplinary approach will also attract students and educators from such fields as anthropology, philosophy and economics. To aid in further research, select bibliographies follow each essay.

Author : Robert A. Saunders
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Internet
ISBN : 9780739141946

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Ethnopolitics in Cyberspace by Robert A. Saunders Pdf

Defying predictions that the Internet would eventually create a world where nations disappeared in favor of a unified 'global village, ' the new millennium has instead seen a proliferation of nationalism on the Web. Cyberspace, a vast digital terrain built upon interwoven congeries of data and sustained through countless public/private communication networks, has even begun to alter the very fabric of national identity. This is particularly true among stateless nations, diasporic groups, and national minorities, which have fashioned the Internet into a shield again the assimilating efforts of their countries of residence. As a deterritorialized medium that allows both selective consumption and inexpensive production of news and information, the Internet has endowed a new generation of technology-savvy elites with a level of influence that would have been impossible to obtain a decade ago. Challenged nations-from Assyrians to Zapotecs-have used the Web to rewrite history, engage in political activism, and reinvigorate moribund languages. This book explores the role of the Internet in shaping ethnopolitics and sustaining national identity among four different national groups: Albanians outside of Albania, Russians in the 'near abroad, ' Roma (Gypsies), and European Muslims. Accompanying these case studies are briefer discussions of dozens of other online national movements, as well as the ramifications of Internet nationalism for offline domestic and global politics. The author discusses how the Internet provides new tools for maintaining national identity and improves older techniques of nationalist resistance for minorities. Bringing together research and methodologies from a range of fields, Saunders fills a gap in the social science literature on the Internet's central role in influencing nationalism in the twenty-first century. By creating new spaces for political discourse, alternative avenues for cultural production, and novel means of social organization, the Web is remaking what it means to be part of nation. This insightful study provides a glimpse of this exciting and sometimes disturbing new landscap

Author : Carol C. Gould
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521541271

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Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights by Carol C. Gould Pdf

In her new book Carol Gould addresses the fundamental issue of democratizing globalization, that is to say of finding ways to open transnational institutions and communities to democratic participation by those widely affected by their decisions.The book develops a framework for expanding participation in crossborder decisions, arguing for a broader understanding of human rights and introducing a new role for the ideas of care and solidarity at a distance. Accessibly written with a minimum of technical jargon this is a major new contribution to political philosophy.

Author : Claire Taylor,Thea Pitman
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781781387016

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Latin American Cyberculture and Cyberliterature by Claire Taylor,Thea Pitman Pdf

This collection of critical essays investigates an emergent and increasingly important field of cultural production in Latin America: cyberliterature and cyberculture in their varying manifestations, including blogs and hypertext narratives, collective novels and e-mags, digital art and short Net-films. Highly innovative in its conception, this book provides the first sustained academic focus on this area of cultural production, and investigates the ways in which cyberliterature and cyberculture in the broadest sense are providing new configurations of subjects, narrative voices, and even political agency, for Latin Americans. The volume is divided into two main sections. The first comprises eight chapters on the broad area of cyberculture and identity formation/preservation including the development of different types of cybercommunities in Latin America. While many of the chapters applaud the creative potential of these new virtual communities, identities and cultural products to create networks across boundaries and offer new contestatory strategies, they also consider whether such phenomena may risk reinforcing existing social inequalities or perpetuate conservatism. The second section comprises six chapters and an afterword that deal with the nature of cyberliterature in all its many forms, from the (cyber)cultural legacies of writers such as Julio Cortázar and Jorge Luis Borges, to traditional print literature from the region that reflects on the subject of new technology, to weblogs and hypertext and hypermedia fiction proper.

Author : Michael Gorham,Ingunn Lunde,Martin Paulsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317810735

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Digital Russia by Michael Gorham,Ingunn Lunde,Martin Paulsen Pdf

Digital Russia provides a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which new media technologies have shaped language and communication in contemporary Russia. It traces the development of the Russian-language internet, explores the evolution of web-based communication practices, showing how they have both shaped and been shaped by social, political, linguistic and literary realities, and examines online features and trends that are characteristic of, and in some cases specific to, the Russian-language internet.

Author : Kurubacak, Gulsun,Yuzer, T. Volkan
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781609600471

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Handbook of Research on Transformative Online Education and Liberation: Models for Social Equality by Kurubacak, Gulsun,Yuzer, T. Volkan Pdf

"This book focuses on the societal, social, political, economic and philosophical perspectives of transformative models and how digital learning communities foster critical reflections and perspective change, building a better understanding on how online educators/designers/tutors/learners can talk about injustice and inequality to a virtual group"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121697986

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Russia in Global Affairs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Scott Beattie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317163329

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Community, Space and Online Censorship by Scott Beattie Pdf

Internet censorship is a controversial topic - while the media periodically sounds alarms at the dangers of online life, the uncontrollable nature of the internet makes any kind of pervasive regulatory control impossible. This book compares the Australian solution, a set of laws which have been criticized as being both draconian and ineffectual, to major regulatory systems in the UK and US and understanding what drives them. The 'impossibility' of internet regulation opens deeper issues - what do we mean by regulation and how do we judge the certainty and effectiveness of law? These questions lead to an exploration of the theories of legal geography which provide tools to understand and evaluate regulatory practices. The book will be a valuable guide for academics, students and policy makers working in media and censorship law, those from a civil liberties interest and people interested in internet theory generally.

Author : Stanley D. Brunn,Susan L. Cutter,James W. Harrington
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1402018711

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Geography and Technology by Stanley D. Brunn,Susan L. Cutter,James W. Harrington Pdf

This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Association of American Geographers. It recognizes the importance of technologies in the production of geographical knowledge. The original chapters presented here examine technologies that have affected geography as a discipline. Among the technologies discussed are cartography, the camera, aerial photography, computers, and other computer-related tools. The contributors address the impact of such technologies on geography and society, disciplinary inquiries into the social/technological interfaces, high-tech as well low-tech societies, and applications of technologies to the public and private sectors. Geography and Technology can be used as a textbook in geography courses and seminars investigating specific technologies and the impacts of technologies on society and policy. It will also be useful for those in the humanities, social, policy and engineering sciences, planning and development fields where technology questions are becoming of increased importance. Geography clearly has much to learn from other disciplines and fields about geography/technology linkages; others can likewise learn much from us.

Author : Margaret Gibson,Clarissa Carden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319760995

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Living and Dying in a Virtual World by Margaret Gibson,Clarissa Carden Pdf

This book takes readers into stories of love, loss, grief and mourning and reveals the emotional attachments and digital kinships of the virtual 3D social world of Second Life. At fourteen years old, Second Life can no longer be perceived as the young, cutting-edge environment it once was, and yet it endures as a place of belonging, fun, role-play and social experimentation. In this volume, the authors argue that far from facing an impending death, Second Life has undergone a transition to maturity and holds a new type of significance. As people increasingly explore and co-create a sense of self and ways of belonging through avatars and computer screens, the question of where and how people live and die becomes increasingly more important to understand. This book shows how a virtual world can change lives and create forms of memory, nostalgia and mourning for both real and avatar based lives.

Author : Andrew Brown,Niki Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134311880

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World Yearbook of Education 2004 by Andrew Brown,Niki Davis Pdf

A real revolution is taking place in the way in which we conceptualise and practise education and learning. This book sets out to explore the immense impact which digital technology is having on education around the world and the ways in which it is used by a wide range of individuals and communities. Contributors analyse changes in technology such as e-mail, the Internet, digital video and other media, but also the effect of this new technology on the way people live and learn around the world. Cultural changes taking place range from the blurring of boundaries between formal and informal learning to the development of new 'virtual communities' which revolve around particular social or cultural interests, and which serve as a crucial tool and source of identity for spatially displaced communities such as refugees. Digital technology is changing the way we all live, and this book is an authoritative study of these changes in all their diversity.

Author : Rey Koslowski
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : 9780415429672

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International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics by Rey Koslowski Pdf

This book considers the impact of migrant communities on the politics of their home nations, with case studies from Israel, Turkey, Kurdistan, the Dominican Republic, Mexico and Sri Lanka.

Author : D. Savat
Publisher : Springer
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137025012

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Uncoding the Digital by D. Savat Pdf

Digital media are having an enormous impact on the world. From the seemingly mundane, like playing World of Warcraft, to posting a message on Twitter or Facebook, to the operation of financial markets, to transformations in science and the economy - digital media continue to revolutionize how people live their daily life. This book challenges how we understand our relationship with our digital machines, and shows how they open up a new capacity for action in the world. A capacity for action that we should no longer simply think of in terms of movement and force, but also in terms of flow and viscosity. A capacity for action that produces a politics of fluids, and finds its expression not only in new forms of social control, but also in a renewed ability for people to engage with the world and each other.

Author : Frank Louis Rusciano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137350961

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World Opinion and the Northern Ireland Peace Process by Frank Louis Rusciano Pdf

This book uniquely combines global opinion theory with the English school of international relations to explain the effects of world opinion on the Northern Ireland peace process. It begins by analyzing the reasons why the civil rights movement imported from the United States ended in the Troubles. It traces how national identity now arises in Northern Ireland as a negotiation between the area’s international image and its citizens’ national consciousness. Rusciano illustrates how world opinion affects patterns of speech and silencing, and the effect this has on the peace process. He also shows how those negotiating the peace were affected by world opinion. Finally, the volume concludes by describing a possible path toward completing the peace process consistent with world opinion.

Author : William F. Eadie
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781412950305

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21st Century Communication: A Reference Handbook by William F. Eadie Pdf

Highlights the most important topics, issues, questions, and debates affecting the field of communication in the 21st Century.