Internet geography
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Internet geography, also called cybergeography, is a subfield of geography that studies how the internet is organized[1] from social, economic, cultural, and technological perspectives.[2][3]
The core assumption of Internet geography is that the location of servers, websites, data, services, and infrastructure is key to understanding the development and the dynamics of the Internet. This perspective emphasizes that the internet is not a "placeless" network, since its functioning depends on unevenly distributed physical infrastructure such as servers, undersea cables, and data centers located in specific geographic regions.[4] For instance, the Internet's topology may be mapped by determining how fast data is transmitted between points using methods such as ping.[5]
One topic covered by this discipline is information geography. For instance, programs that connect to the Internet, such as search engines and social media applications, enable users to sort and view the mass of information on the Internet.[6]
Another topic that Internet geography examines is the digital divides, which refer to unequal access to and use of the internet across different regions and populations.[7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Arnett, George (2015-07-10). "World wide web? Map resizes countries by number of internet users". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2026-06-26.
- ↑ Green, Emma (2013-09-09). "Mapping the 'Geography' of the Internet". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2015-09-15.
- ↑ Warf, Barney (2012-08-01). Global Geographies of the Internet. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789400712454.
- ↑ Zook, Matthew (September 28, 2007). "The Geographies of the Internet". Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 40: 53–78. doi:10.1002/aris.1440400109.
- ↑ Papp, István; Varga, Levente; Afifi, Mounir; Gere, István; Néda, Zoltán (5 July 2019). "Scaling in the space-time of the Internet". Scientific Reports. 9 (1) 9734: 1. Bibcode:2019NatSR...9.9734P. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-46208-6. PMC 6611940. PMID 31278302.
- ↑ Zook, Matthew (January 2006). "The geographies of the internet". Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. 40 (1): 93. doi:10.1002/aris.1440400109.
- ↑ Graham, Mark; De Sabbata, Stefano; Zook, Matthew A. (2015-06-01). "Towards a study of information geographies: (im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information". Geo: Geography and Environment. 2 (1): 88–105. Bibcode:2015GeoGE...2...88G. doi:10.1002/geo2.8. hdl:2381/40536. ISSN 2054-4049.
External links
[edit]- Information Geographies Archived 2020-08-12 at the Wayback Machine at the Oxford Internet Institute
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