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Death of Distance Or Tyranny of Distance?
Ann Capling
Kim Richard Nossal
其他書名
The Internet, Deterritorialisation, and the Anti-globalisation Movement in Australia
出版
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
, 2000
ISBN
0731531086
9780731531080
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=w666AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Abstract: Much of the analysis of the anti-globalisation movement has focused on the degree to which the Internet has played a crucial role in contemporary social movements. It is commonly argued that the net helps create 'virtual communities' that use the medium to exchange information, co-ordinate activities, and build and extend political support. Much of the commentary on the web as a means of political mobilisation stresses the degree to which the net compresses both space and time. Equally important in this view is the deterritorialised nature of on-line protest and diminution in importance of 'place' in current anti-globalisation campaigns. Our examination of the antiglobalisation movement in Australia leads us to a different conclusion. While the Internet does indeed compress time, it compresses space in a different and indeed quite variable way. This paper examines the way in which Australians protested against the MAI and the WTO meetings in Seattle and shows the differences in the nature of protest in each case. We conclude that crucial to an understanding of the differences was the considerable difference in the importance of 'place' in each case.