Cyberimperialism? Global Relations in the New Electronic Frontier

Subjects:

• Communications » Telecommunications
• Communications » Mass Media
• Communications » Political Communications

Reviews:

• Cyberimperialism introduces some critical sensiblities into our evaluation of the social impact of the internet. Readers who have become accustomed to publications extolling the democratic virtues of the Internet will benefit from the alternative images of the World Wide Web as a tool of oppression. Futures researchers interested in engendering conversations about the future of globalization and the Internet would benefit from its more balanced and nuanced discussion.
  —Futures 2002

Table of Contents:

• Cyberglobalization: Superhighway or Superhypeway? by Bosah Ebo
• Theoretical Issues on Cyberglobalization
• Three faces of Cyberimperialism by Frank Louis Rusciano
• From Imperialism to Glocalization: A Theoretical Framework for the Information Age by Marwan Kraidy
• The Internet and the Problem of Legitimacy: A Tocquevillian Perspective by Jonathan Mendilow
• Cybercolonialism: Speeding Along the Superhighway or Stalling on a Beaten Track? by Deborah Tong
• Politics in the Electronic Global Village
• The Empire Strikes Back: The Cultural Politics of the Internet by David J. Gunkel
• Creating New Relations: The Internet in Central and Eastern Europe by Margot Emery and Benjamin J. Bates
• A People's Electronic Democracy and an Establishment System of Government: The United Kingdom by Glen Segell
• Global Economic Issues in Cyberspace
• Prospects of Small Economics in the Age of the Internet by Vasja Vehovar
• Counter-Hegemonic Media: Can Cyberspace Resist Corporate Colonization? by Jeffrey Layne Blevins
• The Information Revolution, Transnational Relations, and Sustainable Development in the Global South by Rodger A. Payne
• Global Information Infrastructure in the Eastern and Southeastern Asia Countries: Emerging Regulatory Implications and Models by Chung-Chuan Yang
• National Identities and Grassroots Movements in Cyberspace
• Cultural Identity and Cyberimperialism: Computer Mediated Explorations of Ethnicity, Nation and Citizenship by Laura B. Lengel and Patrick D. Murphy
• Whose Empowerment?: NGOs Between Grassroots and Netizens by Ellen S. Kole
• Implications of the Information Revolution for Africa: Cyber-hype or Cyber-hope by Roger G. White
• Negotiating National Identity and Social Movement in Cyberspace: Natives and Invaders on the Panama-L Listserve by Leda Cooks