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Cyberspaces and Global Affairs.
Title:
Cyberspaces and Global Affairs.
Author:
Costigan, Sean S.
ISBN:
9781409427551
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (404 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- PART I -- 1 Cyberwar: A Real and Growing Threat -- 2 From an Analog Past to a Digital Future -- 3 Marching Across the Cyber Frontier: Explaining the Global Diffusion of Network-centric Warfare -- 4 VIEWPOINT: Cyberterrorism: Cyber "Pearl Harbor" is Imminent -- 5 VIEWPOINT: Protecting Google. Is an Attack Against Google, an Attack Against the U.S.? -- 6 VIEWPOINT: Invisible Threats -- PART II -- 7 Web 2.0 and Public Diplomacy -- 8 Call for Power? Mobile Phones as Facilitators of Political Activism -- 9 ICT Infrastructure in Two Asian Giants: A Comparative Analysis of China and India -- 10 Information (without) Revolution? -- 11 The Political History of the Internet -- 12 U.S. Identity, Security, and Governance of the Internet -- 13 Information and Communications Technologies and Power -- 14 Social Media and Iran's Post-election Crisis -- 15 VIEWPOINT: Combating Censorship Should be a Foreign Policy Goal -- 16 VIEWPOINT: An Alternative Perspective on Cyber Anarchy for Policy-makers -- PART III -- 17 Digital Divide: The Reality of Information Haves and Have-nots -- 18 Using ICT Research to Assist Policy-making and Regulation: The Case of Namibia -- 19 Leveraging Information and Communication Technologies for Global Public Health -- 20 Knowledge Ecologies in International Affairs: A New Paradigm for Dialog and Collaboration -- 21 Environmental Politics: How Information and Communication Technology have Changed the Debate -- 22 VIEWPOINT: Privacy-There is Not Enough and it is Shrinking Fast -- 23 VIEWPOINT: Information Overload: Real and Growing by the Minute -- 24 VIEWPOINT: PageRank and Perceptions of Quality -- 25 VIEWPOINT: Citizen Change -- 26 VIEWPOINT: Old and New Media: Picket Fences Until the End.

27 Postscript -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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