The geography of the Internet
Subtitle: cities, regions and Internet infrastructure in Europe
By: Emmanouil Tranos, Department of Spatial Economics, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Series: New horizons in regional science; New horizons in regional science
Publisher: Edward Elgar; Elgar Publishing, Incorporated, Edward
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781781953365; 9781781953372
Subjects: Internet; Web sites; Location; Infrastructure (Economics); Interconnexion de réseaux; Infrastructure des communications; Aspects géographiques; Aspects socio-économiques; Modèles économétriques
Description: This timely book presents a wide range of quantitative methods, including complex network analysis and econometric modelling, to illustrate how the Internet both follows, and at the same time challenges, more traditional geographies. Emmanouil Tranos explores the spatiality of the Internet, its physical infrastructure, and the geographic and socio-economic factors that shape its spatial distribution. He shows that although the Internet is a technical system with strong topological attributes, an almost 'hidden' spatial dimension also exists. The scattering of Internet Backbone Networks across.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-226) and index.