2000 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Role of the Real City in Cyberspace: Understanding Regional Variations in Internet Accessibility
verfasst von : Mitchell L. Moss, Anthony M. Townsend
Erschienen in: Information, Place, and Cyberspace
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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Since 1993, when the first graphical web browser, Mosaic, was released into the public domain, the Internet has evolved from an obscure academic and military research network into an international agglomeration of public and private, local and global telecommunications systems. Much of the academic and popular literature has emphasized the distance-shrinking implications and placelessness inherent in these rapidly developing networks. However, the relationship between the physical and political geography of cities and regions and the virtual (or logical) geography of the Internet lacks a strong body of empirical evidence upon which to base such speculation.