This book provides a multidisciplinary view of the Internet and its interaction with society.

The principal perspectives that will be covered are:

• technology (the basic infrastructure of the web, its architecture and statistics)
• economics (the role that the Internet is playing and has played in economies)
• legal (legal issues, especially copyright, patent, trademark, but also libel, censorship, etc.)
• culture (online communities, cultural production)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Technological Infrastructure
3. Demographics
4. Dangers
5. Economics and the Internet
6. The Internet and the Law