The Future Internet Alternative Visions

The internet’s global expansion has been the subject of much academic research and policy discourse in recent years. Due to the sociotechnical complexity of the Internet, policymakers, businesspeople, and academics worldwide have struggled to keep abreast

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Jenifer Winter Ryota Ono Editors

The Future Internet Alternative Visions

Public Administration and Information Technology Volume 17

Series Editor Christopher G. Reddick, San Antonio, TX, USA

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/10796

Jenifer Winter • Ryota Ono Editors

The Future Internet Alternative Visions

Editors Jenifer Winter School of Communications University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Honolulu, HI, USA

Ryota Ono Department of Business Administration Aichi University Nagoya City, Aichi, Japan

Public Administration and Information Technology ISBN 978-3-319-22993-5 ISBN 978-3-319-22994-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22994-2

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Contents

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Introduction to the Future Internet: Alternative Visions .................... Jenifer Winter and Ryota Ono

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Coercive Cyberspaces and Governing Internet Futures ..................... Rex Troumbley

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Futures of Participation and Civic Engagement within Virtual Environments ................................................................. Mario Guilló

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Power and the Futures of the Internet .................................................. Sohail Inayatullah and Ivana Milojević

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The Future of the Internet as a Rhizomatic Revolution toward a Digital Meanings Society ........................................................ Sirkka Heinonen

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An Internet of Beings: Synthetic Biology and the Age of Biological Computing ......................................................................... Aubrey Yee

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Infectious Connectivity: Affect and the Internet in Postnormal Times .....................................................................