Virtual states : the internet and the boundaries of the nation state / / Jerry Everard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778875403321
• Autore: Everard Jerry <1956-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000
• ISBN: 1-134-69275-7; 0-415-17213-6; 1-280-33303-0; 0-203-02008-1; 0-203-15921-7
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 174 p. : map
• Collana: Technology and the global political economy
• Disciplina: 303.48/33
• Soggetti: Information society - Political aspects; Internet - Political aspects; Internet - Social aspects; Nation-state
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-169) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part, PART I Virtual states: theory and practice -- chapter 1W(h)ither the state? -- chapter 2 [e-mail] -- part, Part II The developing world -- chapter 3 Hungry, thirsty and wired -- chapter 4 Sovereignty, boundary making and the Net -- Sovereignty -- chapter 5 Culture and the Other on the Internet -- part, Part III The developed world -- chapter 6 Process: the key to the Cyborg -- chapter 7 [e-mail] -- chapter 8 The @ of war -- part, Part IV Internet and society -- chapter 9 Virtually real/really virtual -- chapter 10 Internet censorship -- US, Europe and Australia -- chapter 11 alt.cyberspace.binaries.philosophy.
• Sommario/riassunto: Virtual States analyses the role of the state in a globalising, wired society. Everard argues that while information technology poses fundamental challenges to the inclusionary/exclusionary processes of state-making, this will not mean the decline but rather the mutation of the state. Everard goes on to look at the different ways in which states react to the wired society in the developing and developed worlds and ; the impact of these reactions on those excluded from this society.