Research Catalog

Title

Cyberspaces and global affairs / edited by Sean S. Costigan and Jake Perry.

Publication

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.

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Additional Authors

• Costigan, Sean S.
• Perry, Jake.

Description

xxvi, 377 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

From the "Facebook" revolutions in the Arab world to the use of social networking in the aftermath of disasters in Japan and Haiti, to the spread of mobile telephony throughout the developing world: all of these developments are part of how information and communication technologies are altering global affairs. With the rise of the social web and applications like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, scholars and practitioners of international affairs are adapting to this new information space across a wide scale of issue areas. In conflict resolution, dialogues and communication are taking the form of open social networks, while in the legal realm, where cyberspace is largely lawless space, states are stepping up policing efforts to combat online criminality and hackers are finding new ways around increasingly sophisticated censorship. Militaries are moving to deeply incorporate information technologies into their doctrines, and protesters are developing innovative uses of technology to keep one step ahead of the authorities. The essays and topical cases in this book explore such issues as networks and networked thinking, information ownership, censorship, neutrality, cyberwars, humanitarian needs, terrorism, privacy and rebellion, giving a comprehensive overview of the core issues in the field, complemented by real world examples.

Subjects

• Information technology > Political aspects
• Mass media and international relations
• International relations > Technological innovations
• Internet > Political aspects
• Internet and international relations
• Technology and international relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Kenneth H. Keller -- Part I. Cyberwar : a real and growing threat / Nat Katin-Borland -- From an analog past to a digital future : Information and communication technology in conflict management / Daniel Wehrenfennig -- Marching across the cyber frontier : explaining the global diffusion of network-centric warfare / Tim Junio -- Cyberterrorism : cyber 'Pearl Harbor' is imminent / Emily Molfino -- Protecting Google : is an attack against Google an attack against the United States? / Nat Katin-Borland -- Invisible threats / Jake Perry.
• Part II. Web 2.0 and public democracy / Hannes R. Richter -- Call for power? Mobile phones as facilitators of political activism / Fabien Miard -- ICT infrastructure in two Asian giants : a comparative analysis of China and India / Venkata Praveen Tanguturi and Fotios C. Harmantzis -- Information (without) revolution? Ethnography and the study of new media-enabled change in the Middle East / Deborah L. Wheeler -- The political history of the Internet : a theoretical approach to the implications for U.S. power / Madeline Carr -- U.S. identity, security, and governance of the Internet / Ryan Kiggins -- Information and communications technologies and power / Jeffrey A Hart -- Social media and Iran's post-election crisis / Lida Khalili Gheidary -- Combating censorship should be a foreign policy goal / Hannes Steen-Thornhammar -- An alternative prospect on cyber anarchy for policymakers / Eddie Walsh.
• Part III. Digital divide : the reality of information haves and have-nots / Natalya Sverjensky -- Using ICT research to assist policymaking and regulation : the case of Namibia / Christoph Stork and Tony Vetter -- Leveraging information and communication technologies for global public health / Shriya Malhotra -- Knowledge ecologies in international affairs : a new paradigm for dialog and collaboration / Sean S. Costigan and Chris Pallaris -- Environmental politics : how information and communication technology have changed the debate / Erica Dingman -- Privacy : there is not enough and it is shrinking fast / Hannes Steen-Thornhammar -- Information overload : real and growing by the minute / Natalya Sverjensky -- PageRank and perceptions of quality / David Millman -- Citizen change : how technology and new media have turned us all into digital freedom fighters / Anthony Lopez -- Old and new media : picket fences until the end / Sujit Bhar -- Postscript / Sean S. Costigan and Jake Perry.

Call Number

JBF 17-203

ISBN

• 9781409427544
• 1409427544

LCCN

• 2011024565
• 7210509

OCLC

741415796

Title

Cyberspaces and global affairs / edited by Sean S. Costigan and Jake Perry.

Imprint

Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2012.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Costigan, Sean S.

Perry, Jake.

Other Standard Identifier

7210509

Research Call Number

JBF 17-203