"Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion"

Co-authored by Stephen D. McDowell

The book "Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion" (Temple University Press, 2007), has been nominated for the Association of American Geographers' Political Geography Specialty Group's Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award.

The book is co-authored by Stephen D. McDowell (John H. Phipps Professor of Communication and Chair of the Department of Communication at Florida State University), Philip E. Steinberg (Associate Professor of Geography at Florida State University), and Tami K. Tomasello (Assistant Professor in the School of Communication, East Carolina University).

"Managing the Infosphere" examines the global world of communications as a mobile space that overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states. It investigates policy problems encountered when international organizations, corporations, and individual users try to "manage" a space that simultaneously contradicts and supports existing institutions and systems of governance, identity, and technology.