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Cyberspaces and Global Affairs.

The essays and topical cases in this book explore such issues as networks and networked thinking, information ownership, censorship, neutrality, cyberwars, humanitarian needs, terrorism, privacy and rebellion, giving a comprehensive overview of the core issues in the field, complimented by real worl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Costigan, Sean S.
Otros Autores: Perry, Jake
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Glossary; PART I; 1 Cyberwar: A Real and Growing Threat; 2 From an Analog Past to a Digital Future; 4 VIEWPOINT: Cyberterrorism: Cyber "Pearl Harbor" is Imminent; 5 VIEWPOINT: Protecting Google. Is an Attack Against Google, an Attack Against the U.S.?; 6 VIEWPOINT: Invisible Threats; PART II; 7 Web 2.0 and Public Diplomacy; 8 Call for Power? Mobile Phones as Facilitators of Political Activism; 9 ICT Infrastructure in Two Asian Giants: A Comparative Analysis of China and India.
  • 10 Information (without) Revolution?11 The Political History of the Internet; 12 U.S. Identity, Security, and Governance of the Internet; 13 Information and Communications Technologies and Power; 14 Social Media and Iran's Post-election Crisis; 15 VIEWPOINT: Combating Censorship Should be a Foreign Policy Goal; 16 VIEWPOINT: An Alternative Perspective on Cyber Anarchy for Policy-makers; PART III; 17 Digital Divide: The Reality of Information Haves and Have-nots; 18 Using ICT Research to Assist Policy-making and Regulation: The Case of Namibia.
  • 19 Leveraging Information and Communication Technologies for Global Public Health20 Knowledge Ecologies in International Affairs: A New Paradigm for Dialog and Collaboration; 21 Environmental Politics: How Information and Communication Technology have Changed the Debate; 22 VIEWPOINT: Privacy--There is Not Enough and it is Shrinking Fast; 23 VIEWPOINT: Information Overload: Real and Growing by the Minute; 24 VIEWPOINT: PageRank and Perceptions of Quality; 25 VIEWPOINT: Citizen Change; 26 VIEWPOINT: Old and New Media: Picket Fences Until the End; 27 Postscript; Index.