Internet geography

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Information infrastructure Domain Name System Hypertext Transfer Protocol Internet exchange point Internet Protocol Internet protocol suite Internet service provider IP address Internet Message Access Protocol Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
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Internet portal

Internet geography, also called cybergeography, is a subdiscipline of geography that studies the spatial organization of the Internet, from social, economic, cultural, and technological perspectives.^[1]^[2] The core assumption of Internet geography is that the location of servers, websites, data, services, and infrastructure is key to understand the development and the dynamics of the Internet. Among the topics covered by this discipline, of particular importance are information geography and digital divides.^[3]

References

↑ Green, Emma. "Mapping the 'Geography' of the Internet". Retrieved 2015-09-15.
↑ Warf, Barney (2012-08-01). Global Geographies of the Internet. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789400712454.
↑ 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. doi:10.1002/geo2.8. ISSN 2054-4049.

External links

Information Geographies at the Oxford Internet Institute

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