China and the US in the New Internet World

Bolsover, Gillian; Dutton, William H.; Law, Ginette; Dutta, Soumitra

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“…Geographically, we have already moved from domination of the old internet world (the United States and Europe) to domination of the new internet world (emerging nations of the global East and South) (Bolsover, Dutton, Law, & Dutta, ). The changing share of global internet users is summarised in Table (IWS, ).…”

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“…The global shift from old to new internet world is both changing and perpetuating behaviour and values online. Compared with their old internet world counterparts, new internet world users are more sociable (in terms of willingness to connect with strangers online), produce more online content, are much more politically active, source more of their audio‐visual content online and make use of a wider range of languages (Bolsover et al, ). They also spend more time online.…”

Section: Digital Foundations For Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As an example, in a global sample of 28 countries, all of the top 10 countries in terms of average number of daily hours of internet usage were developing countries; as were all of the top 10 in terms of average number of daily hours of social media use (WAS, ). However, there is a consistency of old and new world online attitudes towards issues like censorship and monitoring online, which “suggests that there is a distinctive set of global internet values, supporting privacy and freedom of expression that cuts across geographical, economic and social boundaries” (Bolsover et al, :129).…”

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What has changed in the decade or so since the ideas of a new "ICT4D 2.0" phase were first mooted? This paper reviews those changes, based on a new framework model. At a foundational level, it looks at recent and current trends in digital technologies, data, processes and the implications these have for the user demographics and network structures that underpin the role of digital ICTs in international development. It then summarises some of the new building blocks of development: digital roles, digital products and digital business models. We could call what is emerging "ICT4D 3.0." However, this paper argues that the changes are such that we could talk of a paradigmatic shift and suggests that the elements could be collated as a new "digital-for-development" paradigm. Part 2 of this paper explores the patterns of change in the economy and in politics that may be associated with this paradigm. K E Y W O R D Sdigital-for-development, ICT4D, paradigm, trends

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“…The third, currently nascent, will be based around a ubiquitous computing model of sensors, embedded processing and near-universal connectivity, and widespread use of smart applications. Geographically, we have already moved from domination of the old Internet world (the US and Europe) to domination of the new Internet world (emerging nations of the global East and South) (Bolsover et al 2014). The changing share of global Internet users is summarised in Table 1 (IWS 2016) The global shift from old to new world is both changing and perpetuating behaviour and values online.…”

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“…The changing share of global Internet users is summarised in Table 1 (IWS 2016) The global shift from old to new world is both changing and perpetuating behaviour and values online. Compared to their old Internet world counterparts, new Internet world users are more sociable (in terms of willingness to connect with strangers online), produce more online content, are much more politically active, source more of their audio-visual content online, and make use of a wider range of languages 7 (Bolsover et al 2014). They also spend more time online.…”

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Towards a study of information geographies: (im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information

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Information has always had geography. It is from somewhere; about somewhere; it evolves and is transformed somewhere; it is mediated by networks, infrastructures, and technologies: all of which exist in physical, material places. These geographies of information about places matter because they shape how we are able to find and understand different parts of the world. Places invisible or discounted in representations are invisible in practice to many people. In other words, geographic augmentations are much more than just representations of places: they are part of the place itself; they shape it rather than simply reflect it. This fusing of the spatial and informational augmentations that are immutable means that annotations of place emerge as sites of political contestation: with different groups of people trying to impose different narratives on informational augmentations. This paper therefore explores how information geographies have their own geographic distributions: geographies of access, of participation, and of representation. The paper offers a deliberately broad survey of a range of key platforms that mediate, host, and deliver different types of geographic information. It does so using a combination of existing statistics and bespoke data not previously mapped or analysed. Through this effort, the paper demonstrates that in addition to the geographies of uneven access to contemporary modes of communication, uneven geographies of participation and representation are also evident and in some cases are being amplified rather than alleviated. In other words, the paper comprehensively shows one important facet of contemporary information geographies: that geographic information itself is characterised by a host of uneven geographies. The paper concludes that there are few signs that global informational peripheries are achieving comparable levels of participation or representation with traditional information cores, despite the hopes that the fast-paced spread of the internet to three billion people might change this pattern.

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China and the US in the New Internet World

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