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Internet Infrastructure and the Persistent Myth of U.S. Hegemony

verfasst von : Dwayne Winseck

Erschienen in: Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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According to many observers, economic globalisation and the liberalisation of telecoms/internet policy have remade the world in the image of the United States. The dominant role of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google has also led to charges of U.S. internet imperialism. This chapter, however, will argue that while these internet giants dominate some of the most popular internet services, the ownership and control of core elements of the internet infrastructure—submarine cables, IXPs, ASN, data centres, and so on—is tilting increasingly towards the EU and BRICS countries and the “rest-of-the-world,” complicating views of hegemonic U.S. control of the internet and of what Susan Strange calls the knowledge structure.

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Titel: Internet Infrastructure and the Persistent Myth of U.S. Hegemony
verfasst von: Dwayne Winseck
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-14539-2

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-14540-8

Copyright-Jahr: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14540-8_5

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