ISBN:
9780415147231
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (269 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version The Governance of Cyberspace : Politics, Technology and Global Restructuring
DDC:
005.8
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Explores the issues of surveillance, control and privacy in relation to the internet, in light of state concern with security, crime and economic advantage. Considers the possible form and agencies responsible for regulation of the 'net'
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 The governance of cyberspace; Chapter 2 Cyberspace sociality; Chapter 3 Virtual culture, urban social polarisation and social science fiction; Chapter 4 The neuroscience of cyberspace; Chapter 5 Governmentality; Chapter 6 Virtual worlds and the social realities of cyberspace; Chapter 7 The virtual state; Chapter 8 The challenge of cyberspatial forms of human interaction to territorial governance and policing; Chapter 9 'Digital democracy' or 'information aristocracy'?; Chapter 10 Privacy, democracy, information
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11 The future of cryptographyChapter 12 Multimedia information products and services; Chapter 13 The Far Right on the Internet; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
