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 p., 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies. The book: * provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that occur there * explores the impacts of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies, on cultural, political and economic relations * charts the spatial forms of virutal spaces * details empirical research and examines a wide variety of maps and spatialisations of cyberspace and the information society * has a related website at http://www.MappingCyberspace.com. This book will be a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on cyberspace and what it means for the future.

Contents:

chapter 1 Introducing cyberspace

chapter 2 Geographies of the information society

chapter 3 Geographies of cyberspace

chapter 4 Introducing the cartographies of cyberspace

chapter 5 Mapping information and communication technologies

chapter 6 Spatialising cyberspace

chapter 7 Mapping asynchronous media

chapter 8 Mapping synchronous social spaces

chapter 9 Spatial cognition of cyberspace

chapter 10 Imaginative mappings of cyberspace

chapter 11 Future mappings of cyberspace.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

1-134-63899-X

9786610105519

0-415-19883-6

1-134-63900-7

1-280-10551-8

0-203-16527-6

9780203165270

OCLC:

277692016