... abalanced overview of the field. In order to provide a coherent structure to the rest of the book,we have divided the remaining text into five chapters. Withineach of the first four of these chapters, ... many of the maps is a particular concern. In reality, many of thesecountries are key to the sustenance of the informationeconomy, providing sites of low-paid, low-skilled office work and the ... literally – to the edge of the map. Pushing countries to the periphery reinforces, visuallyat least, the existing world hegemony in relation to the Internet. The lack of representation of the “unwired”...