Overview
- Presents a study of globalization and the diverse cultures representing the transition to a digital future in the context of sustainable development
- Focuses on convergence and the current divides characterizing technology use in the information age, particularly the most recent and most powerful one: the Internet
- Provides detailed analyses employing extensive statistical and mathematical methods
- Includes forewords from Vinton G. Cerf, Google Vice President and Rainer Wieland, Vice President of the European parliament
Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control (SSDC, volume 151)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preparation of the Topic
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Front Matter
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Empirical Analyses of the Global Spread of ICT
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Power Issues and Reflections on Possible Future Developments
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Back Matter
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About this book
In a sense, the historically unprecedented technical advances in the field of ICT are shaping humanity at different levels and forming a hybrid (intelligent) human-technology system, a so-called global superorganism. The main innovation is the combined study of digitization and globalization in the context of growing social inequalities, collapse, and sustainable development, and how a convergencetowards a kind of global culture could take place. Accordingly, the book discusses the spread of ICT, Internet Governance, the balance between the central concentration of power and the extent of decentralized power distribution, the inclusion or exclusion of people and states in global communication processes, and the capacity for global empathy or culture.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Global Networking, Communication and Culture: Conflict or Convergence?
Book Subtitle: Spread of ICT, Internet Governance, Superorganism Humanity and Global Culture
Authors: Halit Ünver
Series Title: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76448-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76447-4Published: 27 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09493-5Published: 30 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76448-1Published: 19 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2198-4182
Series E-ISSN: 2198-4190
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 311
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 75 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Intelligence, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Globalization, Artificial Intelligence
Industry Sectors: Aerospace, Automotive, Biotechnology, Chemical Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Electronics, Energy, Utilities & Environment, Engineering, Finance, Business & Banking, Health & Hospitals, IT & Software, Law, Materials & Steel, Oil, Gas & Geosciences, Pharma, Telecommunications