Telecommunications and transnationalism: The polarization of social space

Information Society

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 49-62

  Stolfi, Francesco ^a   Sussman, Gerald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cities; Deregulation; Information technology; Telecommunications; Transnational corporations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035530432     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/019722401750067423     Document Type: Article

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