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Cyberimperialism? Global Relations in the New Electronic Frontier
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Bosah Ebo
ISBN: 0-275-96562-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96562-4
272 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 11/30/2000
List Price: $125.00 (UK Sterling Price: £86.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: This collection of essays addresses whether all nations will actively participate in building the information superhighway or whether the Internet will reflect global technological inequalities. The writings are grouped in four major sections, which examine theoretical issues on cyberglobalization, politics in the electronic global village, global economic issues in cyberspace, and national identities and grassroots movements in cyberspace. Contributing scholars represent a wide spectrum of disciplines from political science, economics, and communications to sociology, anthropology, and philosophy. A number of methodological and theoretical perspectives direct the writings. Collectively, the essays point toward an emerging technology that exhibits innate qualities characteristic of the classic notion of cultural imperialism.

This edited collection, with its timely approach to the implications of the Internet for global relations, will appeal to communication, sociology, and political science scholars. The interdisciplinary approach will also attract students and educators from such fields as anthropology, philosophy and economics. To aid in further research, select bibliographies follow each essay.
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
About the Author: BOSAH EBO is Professor in the Department of Communication at Rider University where he teaches International Communication, Communication Ethics, and Media and Popular Culture. He is the author of Cyberghetto or Cybertopia: Race, Class, and Gender on the Internet (Praeger 1998).
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