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Reimagining the Internet as a mosaic of regional cultures

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imageViewed through human activities, the Internet is becoming ever more heterogeneous as more non-Western populations get online.genista/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Most online maps of the Internet are architectural plans, engineering blueprints, anatomical drawings or statistical graphics. For example, the Internet has been represented as millions of devices conn...

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