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Virtual globalization : virtual spaces/tourist spaces / edited by David Holmes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 1.
- Routledge advances in sociology ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Globalization.
- Tourism.
- Virtual reality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (280 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how these, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity. This work will be of essential interest to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, geography, cultural studies and media studies.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Virtual globalization an introduction; Urban space, cyberspace and global space; Ephemeral cities: postmodern urbanism and the production of online space; Public space, urban space and electronic space: would the real city please stand up?; Demonstrating the globe: virtual action in the network society; The space of telework: physical and virtual configurations for remote work; 'The gaze without eyes': video surveillance and the changing nature of urban space
- Telecommunications and the future of cities: debunking the mythsTourist geography as virtual reality; Monocultures of globalization: touring Australia's Gold Coast; Identity tourism, virtuality and the theme park; Architectures of entertainment; The city as tourist spectacle: marketing Sydney for the 2000 Olympics; Resort curtilages: the creation of physical and psychological tourism spaces; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-56136-9
- 1-138-88008-6
- 1-134-56137-7
- 1-280-40408-6
- 0-585-45724-7
- 9780203469125
- OCLC:
- 62171148
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