The sacred, the regional, and the digital.
As an information economy and a cultural hallmark, cyberspace belies traditional boundaries yet involves a distinctive territory, citizenry, literature, technology, capital and finance, ritual, weapons and belligerencies, a recognizable past, and variegated if unspecified futures. Not easily quanti...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Review Vol. 87; no. 2; pp. 193 - 219 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
April 1997
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