The geography of the Internet : cities, regions and Internet infrastructure in Europe

• Tác giả: Emmanouil Tranos
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 1781953368
• ISBN-13: 978-1781953365
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 302.231 Digital media
• Thông tin xuất bản: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, 2013
• Mô tả vật lý: vii, 231 pages : , illustrations ; , 24 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Xã hội, kinh tế, luật
• ID: 156557
• Chủ đề: 1. Aspects géographiques; 2. Infrastructure des communications; 3. Infrastructure (Economics)--Europe; 4. Internet--Europe; 5. Web sites--Location--Europe; 6. Interconnexion de réseaux; 7. Internet; 8. Modèles économétriques; 9. Aspects socio-économiques

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.

Tóm tắt

This timely book presents a wide range of quantitative methods, including complex network analysis and econometric modelling, to illustrate how the Internet both follows, and at the same time challenges, more traditional geographies. Emmanouil Tranos explores the spatiality of the Internet, its physical infrastructure, and the geographic and socio-economic factors that shape its spatial distribution. He shows that although the Internet is a technical system with strong topological attributes, an almost 'hidden' spatial dimension also exists. The scattering of Internet Backbone Networks across.