Reflect on the Hierarchical Structure of the Internet
The Internet is not the imagined Utopia where is no hierarchy, but in fact is full of gaps and differentiation. From the view of the hierarchical structure of the geographic space of the Internet, the global geographical distribution of the Internet is extremely uneven, the Internet penetration, bandwidth, server total in the developed countries have shown a clear advantage than the undeveloped countries .The domestic development of the Internet also shows a larger regional gap between the developed eastern provinces, medium-sized cities than the west less developed provinces, rural areas. From the view of the structure of the social hierarchy of the Internet, network users, network products, network language have obvious hierarchies. The hierarchical structure of the virtual world reflects the true mapping of the hierarchical structure of social reality, correct understanding of the hierarchical structure of the Internet will Contribute to correctly understand the illusory equality slogan about the Internet exposed by the Western developed countries, Clearly beware of the new hegemonism conspiracy of the Western countries.
Internet Hierarchical structure Information hegemony
Yun-rong Long
Department of Journalism Hunan University of Science and Engineering, Yongzhou, Hunan China
国际会议
北京
英文
200-203
2012-05-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）