Mutiny on the bandwidth: The semiotics of statehood in the Internet domain name registries of Pitcairn Island and Niue

New Media and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 47-67

  Steinberg, Philip E ^a   McDowell, Stephen D ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain names; Hegemony; ICANN; Internet; Niue; Pitcairn Island

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037282158     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444803005001907     Document Type: Article

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