Global Geographies of the Internet

Warf, Barney

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“…The OSPs in Articles 1, 2, and 5 are all from either Stockholm or Casablanca. This is aligned with Warf (2013), who states that most of the Internet production, i.e., OSPs, are located in so-called global cities and, also in accordance with theories of clusters and agglomeration effects, are seen in many business sectors (Porter, 1990(Porter, , 2000Krugman, 1991;Zook, 2000;Scott, 2010), and thus are not unique to the online industry. On the contrary, the concentration of online activity in cities has given reasons to apply rubric such as "cyber places" or "social network machines", implying the dense data flows between individuals and machines in urban areas (Arribas-Bel et al, 2015).…”

Section: Chapter 3: Production and Internationalization Of Online Sersupporting

confidence: 67%

“…The relocation or "outsourcing" of both manufacturing and service activities from the Global North to the Global South have dominated during the last decades, leading to a "second global shift" (Bryson, 2007). The geographical concentration of knowledge to certain business districts in cities, not least in the ICT sector, has been exemplified by the knowledge clusters in concentrated areas within global cities in the Global North, like San Francisco, Boston, Tel Aviv, London, Berlin, and Stockholm (Warf, 2013). The shift to a service-led economy has been driven by many factors, including globalization, urbanization, flexible production and outsourcing, policy and institutional changes, and by the development and vast spread of information and communication technologies (ICT).…”

Section: The Role Of Services In the Economy And The Rise Of The Intementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This view became criticized by scholars Florida (2005) and Malecki and Moriset (2007), who prefer to describe the online geography as spiky or double-edged and not necessarily having a space-limiting capacity. In a similar vein, Warf (2013) stresses the many misconceptions of the geography of the Internet are often based on technological determinism that underestimates complex social, political, economic, and personal networks.…”

Section: The Emergence Of An Online Service Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A new stream of spatial features research emerged with papers by Zook and Graham (2007) and Warf (2013), which discussed various Internet geographies such as the geography of Twitter (Graham et al, 2013), the geography of Wikipedia (Graham, 2013b), etc.…”

Section: The Emergence Of An Online Service Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digital oases and digital deserts in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wentrup

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Nakamura

2016

Journal of Science &Amp; Technology Policy Management

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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether Sub-Saharan African countries are catching up with the rest of the world in terms of online usage. Online service usage is an important component of the discourse of the “digital divide”, an emblematic term for the inequality of information and communication technology access. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a quantitative analysis of internet and Facebook penetration coupled with economic strength (GDP/capita), literacy and degree of rural population. Findings – The findings reveal a heterogeneous pattern with a few African countries being digital oases and close to European levels, whereas the majority of the countries are still digital deserts. A strong correlation is found between economic strength and internet penetration. A generalist picture that Sub-Saharan is on the trajectory of closing the digital divide is an imprecise reflection of the reality. Research limitations/implications – It is argued that instead of measuring supply-side data, which has been the trend till now, the use of demand-side elements such as online service usage tells more about digital inequalities between countries. Practical implications – The research encourages internet firms to open up their eyes for Sub-Saharan Africa as an investment opportunity with an untapped gap of online usage. Social implications – The three-billion internet users on the planet are unevenly spread and under-represented in Africa. By drawing a heterogeneous online usage landscape, digital policy can be accurately steered toward countries with the largest needs. Originality/value – There is a paucity of research going into the depth of online usage in Africa. The paper is a contribution to fill that gap.

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Section: Chapter 3: Production and Internationalization Of Online Sersupporting

confidence: 67%

Section: The Role Of Services In the Economy And The Rise Of The Intementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Emergence Of An Online Service Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Emergence Of An Online Service Geographymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digital oases and digital deserts in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Nakamura

2016

Journal of Science &Amp; Technology Policy Management

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“…According to [29], twitter users posted 340 million statuses and made 1.6 billion search queries per day. We use this ratio to obtain how many search requests are made by the user through a day.…”

Section: Traffic Analysismentioning

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Mailet: Instant Social Networking under Censorship

Hopper

2015

Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

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Social media websites are blocked in many regimes where Internet censorship is applied. In this paper, we introduce Mailet, an unobservable transport proxy which enables the users to access social websites by email applications. Without assuming the Mailet servers are trustworthy, Mailet can support the services requiring privileges without having the complete credential. Particularly, the credential is split and distributed in two Mailet servers, and neither of them can recover the credential alone. To recover the credential in a TLS record message, we propose a highly efficient Galois/Counter Mode(GCM) based secure computation, which can enable the two servers to conceal their separate credential copies in the computation. We implemented a prototype for Twitter.com to demonstrate the usability and security of Mailet.

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Adams

2015

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography

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Global Geographies of the Internet

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