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Four Internets

Author : Kieron O'Hara
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197523706
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Four Internets written by Kieron O'Hara and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet has become a staple of modern civilized life, now as vital a utility as electricity. But despite its growing influence, the Internet isn't as stable as it might seem; rather, it can be best thought of as a network of networks reliant on developing technical and social measures to function, including hardware, software, standards, and protocols. As millions of new internet users sign on each year, governing bodies need to balance evolving social ideas surrounding internet use against shifting political pressures on internet governance--or risk disconnection. Four Internets offers a revelatory new approach for conceptualizing the Internet and understanding the sometimes rival values that drive its governance and stability. Four Internets contends that the apparently monolithic "Internet" is in fact maintained by four distinct value systems--the Silicon Valley Open Internet, the Brussels Bourgeois Internet, the DC Commercial Internet, and the Beijing Paternal Internet--competing to determine the future directions of internet affordances for freedom, innovation, security, and human rights. Starting with an analysis of the original vision of an "Open Internet," the book outlines challenges facing this vision and the subsequent rise of other internets popularized through political and monetary machinations. It then unravels how tensions between these internets play out across politics, economics, and technology, and offers perspectives on potential new internets that might arise from emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and smart cities. The book closes with an evaluation of whether all these models can continue to co-exist--and what might happen if any fall away. Visionary and accessible, Four Internets lends readers the confidence to believe in a diverse yet resilient Internet through a deeper understanding of this everyday commodity.

Four Internets

Author : Kieron O?Hara
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)

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Four Internets

Author : Kieron O'Hara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197523711
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Four Internets written by Kieron O'Hara and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Internets offers a revelatory new approach for conceptualizing the Internet and understanding the sometimes rival values that drive its governance and stability. It unravels how tensions between the models play out across politics, economics, and technology, ultimately debating whether these models can continue to co-exist--or what might happen if any fall away.

Four Internets

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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Four Internets written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main identifier is the numerical to change the system, therefore, has been the Internet Protocol (IP) address (32 bits in length application of power by various national and in IP version 4 [IPv4], 128 bits in IPv6), which is supranational institutions to the delicately convertible by one of a number of recognized balanced system itself, to try to "push" the internet organizations into the fam [...] Using the market to solve issues of latency and bandwidth implies the development The second response, the converse to the first, of property rights to allow infrastructure owners is to welcome an opportunity. [...] An important means social media, the perceived threats to individuals' for governments to control or censor the content (in particular, children's) psychological well-being, distributed on the internet is to intervene in cybercrime, cyberwarfare and a coarsening of the protocols, the systems or the technology, public debate, have led some governments to as with the Pakistani takedown of YouTube. [...] Alibaba and Tencent are among the European Union about the interconnection the largest of China's venture capital investors and of the internet's autonomous systems concluded: are shaping the start-up world in that nation (The "A recurrent theme in the discussion of IP Economist 2018p). [...] Here, China has the advantage, both surveillance are being eroded across the globe, as in terms of the national skillset, and in terms of the technology becomes easier to apply and people the numbers of scientists it can deploy (ibid.).

The Geopolitics of Chinese Internets

Author : Jack Linchuan Qiu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100386242X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Geopolitics of Chinese Internets written by Jack Linchuan Qiu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring leading scholars on ‘Chinese internets’ – in the plural – from around the world, this interdisciplinary book explores the changing digital landscape in China and provides insight into contemporary Chinese techno-geopolitics. Policymakers, commentators and the mass media have widely viewed ‘Chinese tech’ as a unitary and statist monolith. This predominant view, however, is not only incomplete but has become increasingly obsolete. Using a pluralist and multilayered approach to analysing Chinese techno-geopolitics, this volume addresses the following important questions: Who are the key players in ‘Chinese internets’ today? What role do government agencies, state-owned enterprises, private companies and individual netizens play? How do ‘Chinese internets’ operate at the global, regional, national or local levels? How are external world or regional events influencing or being influenced by geopolitical patterns within China? The Geopolitics of Chinese Internets will be a key resource for policymakers, scholars, researchers and practitioners interested in Chinese techno-geopolitics and the changing digital landscape in China. This book was originally published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.

High-speed Networks and Internets

Author : William Stallings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book High-speed Networks and Internets written by William Stallings and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Stallings offers the most comprehensive technical book to address a wide range of design issues of high-speed TCP/IP and ATM networks in print to date. "High-Speed Networks and Internets" presents both the professional and advanced student an up-to-date survey of key issues. The Companion Website and the author's Web page offer unmatched support for students and instructors. The book features the prominent use of figures and tables and an up-to-date bibliography. In this second edition, this award-winning and best-selling author steps up to the leading edge of integrated coverage of key issues in the design of high-speed TCP/IP and ATM networks to include the following topics: Unified coverage of integrated and differentiated services. Up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of TCP performance. Thorough coverage of next-generation Internet protocols including (RSVP), (MPLS), (RTP), and the use of Ipv6. Unified treatment of congestion in data networks; packet-switching, frame relay, ATM networks, and IP-based internets. Broad and detailed coverage of routing, unicast, and multicast. Comprehensive coverage of ATM; basic technology and the newest traffic control standards. Solid, easy-to-absorb mathematical background enabling understanding of the issues related to high-speed network performance and design. Up-to-date treatment of gigabit Ethernet. The first treatment of self-similar traffic for performance assessment in a textbook on networks (Explains the mathematics behind self-similar traffic and shows the performance implications and how to estimate performance parameters.) Up-to-date coverage of compression. (A comprehensive survey.) Coverage of gigabit networks. Gigabit design issues permeate the book.

Researching Internet Governance

Author : Laura Denardis
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262360853
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Researching Internet Governance written by Laura Denardis and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from a range of disciplines discuss research methods, theories, and conceptual approaches in the study of internet governance. The design and governance of the internet has become one of the most pressing geopolitical issues of our era. The stability of the economy, democracy, and the public sphere are wholly dependent on the stability and security of the internet. Revelations about election hacking, facial recognition technology, and government surveillance have gotten the public's attention and made clear the need for scholarly research that examines internet governance both empirically and conceptually. In this volume, scholars from a range of disciplines consider research methods, theories, and conceptual approaches in the study of internet governance.

Management Enabling the Future Internet for Changing Business and New Computing Services

Author : Choong Seon Hong
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642044921
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Management Enabling the Future Internet for Changing Business and New Computing Services written by Choong Seon Hong and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-19 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are delighted to present the proceedings of the 12th Asia-Paci?c Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS 2009), which was held in Jeju, Korea, during September 23–25, 2009. Recently, various convergences in wired and wireless networks, and conv- gence of telecommunications and broadcastings, are taking place for ubiquitous multimedia service provisioning. For example, broadband IP/MPLS wired n- works are actively converged with IEEE 802.11e wireless LAN, IEEE 802.16 Wireless MAN, 3G/4G wireless cellular networks, and direct multimedia bro- cast (DMB) networks. For e?cient support of service provisioning for ubiq- tous multimedia services on the broadband convergencenetworks, well-designed and implemented network operations and management functions with Q- guaranteed tra?c engineering are essential. The converged network will open the way for a new world with emerging new businesses and computing services. The Organizing Committee (OC) selected “Management Enabling the Future Internet for Changing Business and New Computing Services” as the timely theme of APNOMS 2009. Contributions from academia, industry and research institutions met these challengeswith173papersubmissions,fromwhich41high-qualitypapers(23.7% of the submissions) were selected for technical sessions as full papers, and 32 papers were selected as short papers. In addition, we had nine papers in - novation sessions for on-going research. Diverse topics were covered, including Tra?c Trace Engineering, Con?guration and Fault Management, Management of IP-Based Networks, Autonomous and Distributed Control, Sensor Network and P2P Management, Converged Networks and Tra?c Engineering, SLA and QoS Management, Active and Security Management, Wireless and Mobile N- work Management, and Security Management.

The Internet Book

Author : Douglas E. Comer
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429824440
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book The Internet Book written by Douglas E. Comer and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet Book, Fifth Edition explains how computers communicate, what the Internet is, how the Internet works, and what services the Internet offers. It is designed for readers who do not have a strong technical background — early chapters clearly explain the terminology and concepts needed to understand all the services. It helps the reader to understand the technology behind the Internet, appreciate how the Internet can be used, and discover why people find it so exciting. In addition, it explains the origins of the Internet and shows the reader how rapidly it has grown. It also provides information on how to avoid scams and exaggerated marketing claims. The first section of the book introduces communication system concepts and terminology. The second section reviews the history of the Internet and its incredible growth. It documents the rate at which the digital revolution occurred, and provides background that will help readers appreciate the significance of the underlying design. The third section describes basic Internet technology and capabilities. It examines how Internet hardware is organized and how software provides communication. This section provides the foundation for later chapters, and will help readers ask good questions and make better decisions when salespeople offer Internet products and services. The final section describes application services currently available on the Internet. For each service, the book explains both what the service offers and how the service works. About the Author Dr. Douglas Comer is a Distinguished Professor at Purdue University in the departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has created and enjoys teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on computer networks and Internets, operating systems, computer architecture, and computer software. One of the researchers who contributed to the Internet as it was being formed in the late 1970s and 1980s, he has served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board, the group responsible for guiding the Internet’s development. Prof. Comer is an internationally recognized expert on computer networking, the TCP/IP protocols, and the Internet, who presents lectures to a wide range of audiences. In addition to research articles, he has written a series of textbooks that describe the technical details of the Internet. Prof. Comer’s books have been translated into many languages, and are used in industry as well as computer science, engineering, and business departments around the world. Prof. Comer joined the Internet project in the late 1970s, and has had a high-speed Internet connection to his home since 1981. He wrote this book as a response to everyone who has asked him for an explanation of the Internet that is both technically correct and easily understood by anyone. An Internet enthusiast, Comer displays INTRNET on the license plate of his car.

Strategies for e-Business

Author : Tawfik Jelassi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030489507
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Strategies for e-Business written by Tawfik Jelassi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth edition of a unique textbook that provides extensive coverage of the evolution, the current state, and the practice of e-business strategies. It provides a solid introduction to understanding e-business and e-commerce by combining fundamental concepts and application models with practice-based case studies. An ideal classroom companion for business schools, the authors use their extensive knowledge to show how corporate strategy can imbibe and thrive by adopting vibrant e-business frameworks with proper tools. Students will gain a thorough knowledge of developing electronic and mobile commerce strategies and the methods to deal with these issues and challenges.

The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World

Author : Laurence Scott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393353087
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World written by Laurence Scott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are a four-dimensional human. Each of us exists in three-dimensional, physical space. But, as a constellation of everyday digital phenomena rewires our lives, we are increasingly coaxed from the containment of our predigital selves into a wonderful and eerie fourth dimension, a world of ceaseless communication, instant information, and global connection. Our portals to this new world have been wedged open, and the silhouette of a figure is slowly taking shape. But what does it feel like to be four-dimensional? How do digital technologies influence the rhythms of our thoughts, the style and tilt of our consciousness? What new sensitivities and sensibilities are emerging with our exposure to the delights, sorrows, and anxieties of a networked world? And how do we live in public with these recoded private lives? Laurence Scott—hailed as a "New Generation Thinker" by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the BBC—shows how this four-dimensional life is dramatically changing us by redefining our social lives and extending the limits of our presence in the world. Blending tech-philosophy with insights on everything from Seinfeld to the fall of Gaddafi, Scott stands with a rising generation of social critics hoping to understand our new reality. His virtuosic debut is a revelatory and original exploration of life in the digital age.

AI for Diversity

Author : Roger Søraa
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000827607
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book AI for Diversity written by Roger Søraa and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-01-27 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting many aspects of people’s lives across the globe, from relatively mundane technology to more advanced digital systems that can make their own decisions. While AI has great potential, it also holds great peril depending on how it is designed and used. AI for Diversity questions how AI technology can lead to inclusion or exclusion for diverse groups in society. The way data is selected, trained, used, and embedded into societies can have unfortunate consequences unless we critically investigate the dangers of systems left unchecked, and can lead to misogynistic, homophobic, racist, ageist, transphobic, or ableist outcomes. This book encourages the reader to take a step back to see how AI is impacting diverse groups of people and how diversity-awareness strategies can impact AI.

Curve Benders

Author : David Nour
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111976422X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Curve Benders written by David Nour and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal growth roadmap guiding you into the future of relationships in work, life, play, and giving Curve Benders is a personal growth roadmap. It will guide you through the complicated intersection of work, life, play, and giving. Countless new forces will shape the future, so the strategic relationships we form in these areas of life are, of necessity, changing. This book will show you how to move into the future and dramatically alter your growth trajectory in both its direction and ultimate destination. David Nour, the author of Relationship Economics and a top thought leader on business relationships, has identified 15 forces that will heavily influence what we do and how and where we engage our current and prospective relationships to create value and make a difference in the lives of others. This book aims to provide you with a step-by-step guide for personal, professional, and organizational growth. The author highlights how certain relationships enable a non-linear growth trajectory. These relationships, in addition to augmenting what we can accomplish, often shape who we become. These relationships are “curve benders,” and this book will show you who and where they are, how to find and engage them, and, equally valuable, how you can become a curve bender to impact the lives and livelihoods of others profoundly. Gain insight into the value of your current strategic relationships and how they help you achieve your work, life, and giving goals Reconceptualize relationships to identify the people with the power, not only to help you achieve but to change who you become Learn how to become a “curve bender” who makes an outsized impact in the lives of others Become better at finding and engaging people, navigating the 15 forces that are reshaping our world This book is about strategic relationship planning, personal growth, and, ultimately, about you. Read Curve Benders to launch yourself into your best future.

The Routledge Handbook of Global and Digital Governance Crossroads

Author : Preeti Shroff-Mehta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040095348
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Global and Digital Governance Crossroads written by Preeti Shroff-Mehta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-26 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook maps and analyzes cross-sector (public–corporate–social–community–faith) governance theories, models, and practices as they are evolving in a digital world. It studies human, cultural, societal, institutional interactions and challenges in a digitally enabled world, especially in the context of post-crisis resilience and agility. Every global crisis forces societies and nations to realign while addressing deeper structural and cultural issues in governance. The Covid-19 pandemic has necessitated swift local-to-global governance responses for timely digital innovations for health crisis interventions, economic recovery, and societal equity. While every nation-state is developing global pandemic responses in a digitally enabled world, the deeper crisis of human, institutional, and societal governance deficit is also evident. This handbook documents digital governance innovations that enhance stakeholder engagement and inclusion for resilient, accountable, and effective governance across sectors. This volume reflects on a range of theoretical frameworks adapted for understanding global and digital governance. It looks at international governance collaborations; corporate governance reform; education governance innovations; public sector and urban governance; health system governance, sustainability, and environmental governance; community and faith-based governance; and digital, cultural, and creativity governance. This book is unique, as it presents important work on post Covid-19 digital and democratic governance and brings together holistic—interdisciplinary and intersectoral— perspectives from the Global North and Global South, engaging the leading scholars, practitioners, businesses, and civil society. It will be of interest to multi-sector institutions and global audiences: governments, corporates, social sector institutions, digital entrepreneurs, students and researchers, academic professionals, policy-makers, public and private sector institutional leaders, and organizational and entrepreneurial innovators interested in the field of governance.

Thatcherism in the 21st Century

Author : Antony Mullen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030417921
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Thatcherism in the 21st Century written by Antony Mullen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines the social and cultural legacy of Thatcherism in the 21st century. Drawing upon perspectives from a range of disciplines, it considers how Thatcherism manifests itself today and how we can assess its long-term impact. The book is divided into four sections, which offer different ways of conceptualising and addressing questions of legacy: the ideological impact of Thatcherism on the Conservative Party and on the country; the long-term impact of Thatcherism across different parts of the UK; how Thatcherism has altered social attitudes to everything from welfare spending to Europe; and how popular historical accounts of Thatcherism have become embedded in different parts of contemporary British culture. The essays in this volume draw upon newly available archival materials, oral histories, social attitudes surveys and parliamentary debates to provide a well-rounded perspective on Thatcherism today.

Diplomacy and the Future of World Order

Author : Chester A. Crocker
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1647120950
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Diplomacy and the Future of World Order written by Chester A. Crocker and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international group of experts confront challenges to peace and conflict diplomacy by considering three potential scenarios for world order–evaluated through regional perspectives from around the world–where key states decide to go it alone, return to a liberal order, or collaborate on a case-by-case basis.

Introduction to Digital Humanism

Author : Hannes Werthner
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031453042
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Digital Humanism written by Hannes Werthner and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-21 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access textbook introduces and defines digital humanism from a diverse range of disciplines. Following the 2019 Vienna Manifesto, the book calls for a digital humanism that describes, analyzes, and, most importantly, influences the complex interplay of technology and humankind, for a better society and life, fully respecting universal human rights. The book is organized in three parts: Part I “Background” provides the multidisciplinary background needed to understand digital humanism in its philosophical, cultural, technological, historical, social, and economic dimensions. The goal is to present the necessary knowledge upon which an effective interdisciplinary discourse on digital humanism can be founded. Part II “Digital Humanism – a System’s View” focuses on an in-depth presentation and discussion of the main digital humanism concerns arising in current digital systems. The goal of this part is to make readers aware and sensitive to these issues, including e.g. the control and autonomy of AI systems, privacy and security, and the role of governance. Part III “Critical and Societal Issues of Digital Systems” delves into critical societal issues raised by advances of digital technologies. While the public debate in the past has often focused on them separately, especially when they became visible through sensational events the aim here is to shed light on the entire landscape and show their interconnected relationships. This includes issues such as AI and ethics, fairness and bias, privacy and surveillance, platform power and democracy. This textbook is intended for students, teachers, and policy makers interested in digital humanism. It is designed for stand-alone and for complementary courses in computer science, or curricula in science, engineering, humanities and social sciences. Each chapter includes questions for students and an annotated reading list to dive deeper into the associated chapter material. The book aims to provide readers with as wide an exposure as possible to digital advances and their consequences for humanity. It includes constructive ideas and approaches that seek to ensure that our collective digital future is determined through human agency.