Table of Contents

Space, Place and Technology in an Electronic Age (M. Wilson & K. Corey).

CONCEPTUALIZING ELECTRONIC SPACE.

The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place? Conceptualizing Space, Place and Information Technology (S. Graham).

Telecom Tectonics and the Meaning of Electronic Space (M. Wilson & C. Arrowsmith).

Human Rights and Welfare in the Electronic State (S. Brunn).

GLOBAL ELECTRONIC COMMERCE.

Telecommunications and Governance in Multinational Enterprises (E. Roche & M. Blaine).

Telecommunications and 24-Hour Trading in the International Securities Industry (J. Langdale).

Japanese Information Services in the Late Twentieth Century (B. Warf).

URBAN, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

Cyberstructure and Social Forces -
The Japanese Experience (T. Morris-Suzuki & P. Rimmer).

Electronic Space -
Creating Cyber Communities in Southeast Asia (K. Corey).

Neighbours -
Australian and Indonesian Telecommunications Connections (P. Rimmer).

The Economic Development of Peripheral Rural Areas in the Information Age (R. Richardson & A. Gillespie).

Telematics, Geography, and Economic Development -
Can Local Initiatives Provide a Strategic Response? (D. Gibbs, et al).

References and Bibliography.

List of Contributors.

Index.

About the Author

Mark I. Wilson is Associate Professor and Kenneth E. Corey is Professor and Senior Research Advisor at Michigan State University. Both are convenors on E-Space: The Electronic Space Project, which is a community of researchers, policy makers and IT professionals with an interest in the spatial impact and implications of information technology.