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Few things in our contemporary world are assumed to hold as much revolutionary promise as information and communication technologies (ICTs). They help connect people across space and time, leading to claims of an increasingly ‘borderless’ world in which it no longer matters where we are in (real) space. As some radically suggest, our communication ‘will be everywhere, but because it is independent of place, it will be situated nowhere’ (Wellman, 2001: 230; original emphasis). Such a world is determined by streams and flows, by switching and connecting, by trans-local and transnational mobility of people, capital, ideology, sTheres of influence, goods, and of course information and data. Everything has become a matter of passwords, mouse clicks, links, data logs, download/ upload streams and speeds, and portals, thanks to digitisation, to satellites, cellular phones, and the Internet.
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Tawil-Souri, H. (2015). Between Digital Flows and Territorial Borders: ICTs in the Palestine-Israel-EU Matrix. In: Del Sarto, R.A. (eds) Fragmented Borders, Interdependence and External Relations. Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137504142_6
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