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The Geography of the Internet - Cities, Regions and Internet Infrastructure in Europe (Hardcover)
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The Geography of the Internet - Cities, Regions and Internet Infrastructure in Europe (Hardcover)
Series: New Horizons in Regional Science series
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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 European city-regions is compared with the aviation
network in order to better understand the topology of the digital
infrastructure. Finally, a causality analysis demonstrates the
significant positive effect of the Internet infrastructure in the
economic development of regions characterized by high absorptive
capacity. This book will prove a highly fascinating read for those
with an interest in Internet geographies, ICTs, regional
development and infrastructure, digital economy, network analysis,
and regional science. Practitioners working on local and regional
development, as well as those focusing on ICTs, digital economy and
smart cities, will also find this book to be an invaluable
reference tool. Contents: Preface 1. Introduction 2. The
Fundamentals of the Internet Infrastructure: A Cross-discipline
Review 3. Methodology and Research Framework 4. The Network Nature
of the Internet Infrastructure 5. Internet Backbone and Aviation
Networks: A Comparative Study 6. An Explanatory Analysis of the
(Unequal) Distribution of the Internet Backbone Networks 7.
Internet Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development: A
Causality Analysis 8. Conclusions References Index
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