Mapping cyberspace / Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dodge, Martin, 1971-

Contributor:

Kitchin, Rob.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computers and civilization.

Cyberspace--Social aspects.

Cyberspace.

Communication.

Physical Description:

x, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Summary:

What does cyberspace look like? Can people make places in virtual spaces?

Space is central to our lives. Because of this, much attention is directed at understanding and explaining the geographic world. Mapping Cyberspace is a groundbreaking book, which extends this analysis to provide a geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace and information and communication technologies.

Drawing together the findings and theories of researchers from geography, cartography, sociology, cultural studies, computer-mediated-communications, information visualization, literary theory and cognitive psychology this volume charts the spatial form of virtual spaces. Mapping Cyberspace will be a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on cyberspace and what it means in the future.

Contents:

2 Geographies of the information society 32

3 Geographies of cyberspace 52

4 Introducing the cartographies of cyberspace 65

5 Mapping information and communication technologies 81

6 Spatialising cyberspace 107

7 Mapping asynchronous media 129

8 Mapping synchronous social spaces 142

9 Spatial cognition of cyberspace 166

10 Imaginative mappings of cyberspace 181

11 Future mappings of cyberspace 207.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [230]-255) and index.

ISBN:

0415198836

0415198844

OCLC:

43945438