Deliberation and rule-making by governments at multiple levels of governance: localities or cities, states or provinces, nations, regions like the European Union (EU) or Mercosur (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Venezuela), and truly international organizations like United Nations agencies.
Published in Chapter:
Comparative Approaches of the IGI-Global Collection
Joseph Straubhaar (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) and Gejun Huang (University of Texas in Austin, USA)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8740-0.ch027
Abstract
This volume has surveyed a broad swath of the impacts of what is one of the largest technological transformations in human history, the Internet. The Internet has changed the way people communicate: among their friends and families, at school and work, and how they meet new people, within and across cultures. It has changed how companies conduct their business, and refocused many new companies on the business possibilities of the Internet itself, which despite the temporary bust in a number of dot.com businesses at the end of the 1990s, continues to expand with relatively long standing businesses like Amazon and Apple doing extremely well. Furthermore, new businesses like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are growing fast, becoming dominant in niches that were not imaginable 20 years ago.