location

This page is under construction and will be available in November 2002, highlighting studies of the geographical dispersal of internet activity -

• the concentration of switches, web-hotels, design and other businesses in a few locations
  
  
• disparities in creation of and access to internet content, discussed in more detail in the complementary Digital Divides profile
  
  
• use of the net at home, work, school and other venues such as web cafes and libraries

In the interim some insights are offered by the following studies. Others are noted in our Net Metrics & Statistics and Information Economy guides.

Matthew Zook's 1998 paper The Web of Consumption: The Spatial Organization of the Internet Industry in the US - a striking demonstration of how the supposedly 'spaceless' Internet industry is clustering in specific geographical locations, in particular New York, LA and San Francisco.

Matthew Zook's paper (PDF) Grounded Capital: Venture Capital's Role in the Clustering of Internet Firms in the US

Information Tectonics: Space, Place & Technology In An Electronic Age (New York, Wiley 00) - a collection of papers edited by Mark Wilson & Kenneth Corey and the associated maps of hosts and access to telecommunications

Home Informatics & Telematics: Information, Technology, and Society (Boston: Kluwer 00) edited by  Andy Sloane & Felix van Rijn

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