Cyberspaces and Global Affairs

404 Pages·2012·2.17 MB·English

by  Perry

CyberspaCes and Global affairs
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Cyberspaces and Global affairs
Edited by
sean s. CostiGan
MIT CogNet and The New School, USA
and
Jake perry
Independent scholar
© sean s. Costigan and Jake perry 2012
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Cyberspaces and global affairs.
1. Cyberspace. 2. international relations--technological
innovations.
i. Costigan, sean s. ii. perry, Jake.
303.4'833-dc22

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cyberspaces and global affairs / [edited] by sean s. Costigan and Jake
perry.
p. cm.
includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-1-4094-2754-4 (hbk.) -- isbn 978-1-4094-2755-1 (ebook)
1. technology and international relations. 2. internet and
international relations. 3. Mass media and international relations. 4.
international relations--technological innovations. 5. information
technology--political aspects. 6. internet--political aspects. i.
Costigan, sean s. ii. perry, Jake.
JZ1254.C73 2012
327.0285'4678--dc23
2011024565
isbn 9781409427544 (hbk)
isbn 9781409427551 (ebk)
IV
Contents
List of Figures ix
List of Tables xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Foreword by Kenneth H. Keller xix
Preface xxi
Acknowledgments xxiii
Glossary xxv
PART I
1 Cyberwar: A Real and Growing Threat 3
Nat Katin-Borland
2 From an Analog Past to a Digital Future: Information and
Communication Technology in Conflict Management 23
Daniel Wehrenfennig
3 Marching Across the Cyber Frontier: Explaining the Global Diffusion of
Network-centric Warfare 51
Tim Junio
4 VIEWPOINT: Cyberterrorism: Cyber “Pearl Harbor” is Imminent 75
Emily Molfino
5 VIEWPOINT: Protecting Google. Is an Attack Against Google,
an Attack Against the U.S.? 83
Nat Katin-Borland
6 VIEWPOINT: Invisible Threats 93
Jake Perry
PART II
7 Web 2.0 and Public Diplomacy 105
Hannes R. Richter
8 Call for Power? Mobile Phones as Facilitators of Political Activism 119
Fabien Miard
vi Cyberspaces and Global Affairs
9 ICT Infrastructure in Two Asian Giants:
A Comparative Analysis of China and India 145
Venkata Praveen Tanguturi and Fotios C. Harmantzis
10 Information (without) Revolution? Ethnography and the Study of
New Media-enabled Change in the Middle East 155
Deborah L. Wheeler
11 The Political History of the Internet: A Theoretical Approach to the
Implications for U.S. Power 173
Madeline Carr
12 U.S. Identity, Security, and Governance of the Internet 189
Ryan Kiggins
13 Information and Communications Technologies and Power 203
Jeffrey A. Hart
14 Social Media and Iran’s Post-election Crisis 215
Lida Khalili Gheidary
15 VIEWPOINT: Combating Censorship Should be a Foreign Policy Goal 223
Hannes Steen-Thornhammar
16 VIEWPOINT: An Alternative Perspective on Cyber Anarchy for Policy-makers 233
Eddie Walsh
PART III
17 Digital Divide: The Reality of Information Haves and Have-nots 239
Natalya Sverjensky
18 Using ICT Research to Assist Policy-making and Regulation:
The Case of Namibia 249
Christoph Stork and Tony Vetter
19 Leveraging Information and Communication Technologies for
Global Public Health 265
Shriya Malhotra
20 Knowledge Ecologies in International Affairs:
A New Paradigm for Dialog and Collaboration 283
Sean S. Costigan and Chris Pallaris
Contents vii
21 Environmental Politics: How Information and
Communication Technology have Changed the Debate 293
Erica Dingman
22 VIEWPOINT: Privacy—There is Not Enough and it is Shrinking Fast 309
Hannes Steen-Thornhammar
23 VIEWPOINT: Information Overload: Real and Growing by the Minute 319
Natalya Sverjensky
24 VIEWPOINT: PageRank and Perceptions of Quality 329
David Millman
25 VIEWPOINT: Citizen Change: How Technology and New Media have
Turned us all into Digital Freedom Fighters 335
Anthony Lopez
26 VIEWPOINT: Old and New Media: Picket Fences Until the End 351
Sujit Bhar
27 Postscript 365
Sean S. Costigan and Jake Perry
Index 369
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List of Figures
8.1 Internet usage in the world 120
8.2 Growing mobile teledensity levels 121
8.3 Worldwide ICT penetration rates 121
8.4 Annual mobile subscriber growth 122
8.5 Mobile network growth in Africa 123
13.1 The long tail (Pareto distribution) 210
18.1 Interconnection presentation to Minister for ICTs, 13 May 2009 259