Internationalizing the Internet

The Co-evolution of Influence and Technology

New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation series

Byung-Keun Kim, Professor, School of Industrial Management, Korea University of Technology and Education, Republic of Korea

This compelling book focuses on the global formation of the Internet system. It contests the common belief that the Internet’s adoption was inevitable and instead examines the social and economic processes that allowed to it to prevail over competing standards and methods for achieving a global information infrastructure.

‘. . . Kim’s book provides both the novice and the more experienced researcher with a very wide range of sources as well as an in-depth analysis of those sources. . . Kim’s book is a worthwhile and substantial addition to literature about the ways in which the internet is changing as it moves through the world.’
– Sally Wyatt, Technovation

全球但sprea不均d of the Internet is giving rise to concerns about inequality and what should be done about it. There are few systematic studies of the distinctive ways that the Internet is becoming embedded or localised in different countries around the world. This book offers an insightful analysis of the social and political history of a contested technology design process that is continuing to shape the Internet system as we encounter it today.’
– Robin Mansell, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

‘This excellent volume will be a first-rate addition to the literature. It is original, thorough, well-written and well-organised. The notes to each chapter are particularly good and together with the extensive list of references make it such a comprehensive study that it should become a standard reference book on the Internet. But its greatest merit is in the analysis made so clearly and brilliantly in the eight chapters.’
– Christopher Freeman, Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK and Maastricht University, The Netherlands