Internet geography
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Internet geography, also called cybergeography, is a subdiscipline of geography that studies the spatial organization of the Internet from social, economic, cultural, and technological perspectives.[1][2]
The core assumption of Internet geography is that the location of servers, websites, data, services, and infrastructure is key to understand the development and the dynamics of the Internet. For instance, the Internet's topology may be mapped by determining how fast data is transmitted between points using methods such as ping.[3]
One topic covered by this discipline is information geography. For instance, programs that connect to the Internet, such as search engines and social media applications, enable users to sort and view the mass of information within the Internet.[4]
Another topic that Internet geography examines is the digital divides.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Green, Emma (2013-09-09). "Mapping the 'Geography' of the Internet". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
- ^ Warf, Barney (2012-08-01). Global Geographies of the Internet. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789400712454.
- ^ Papp, István; Varga, Levente; Afifi, Mounir; Gere, István; Néda, Zoltán (5 July 2019). "Scaling in the space-time of the Internet". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 1. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-46208-6. PMC 6611940.
- ^ Zook, Matthew (January 2006). "The geographies of the internet". Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 40 (1): 93. doi:10.1002/aris.1440400109.
- ^ Graham, Mark; De Sabbata, Stefano; Zook, Matthew A. (2015-06-01). "Towards a study of information geographies: (im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information". Geo: Geography and Environment. 2 (1): 88–105. Bibcode:2015GeoGE...2...88G. doi:10.1002/geo2.8. hdl:2381/40536. ISSN 2054-4049.
External links
[edit]- Information Geographies Archived 2020-08-12 at the Wayback Machine at the Oxford Internet Institute
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