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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.
List of contents
1:Introducing Cyberspace; 2:Geographies of the Information Society; 3:Geographies of Cyberspace; 4:Introducing the Cartographies of Cyberspace; 5:Mapping Information and Communication Technologies; 6:Spatialising Cyberspace; 7:Mapping Asynchronous Media; 8:Mapping Synchronous Media; 9:Spatial Cognition of Cyberspace; 10:Imaginative Mappings of Cyberspace; 11:Future Mappings of Cyberspace
About the author
Martin Dodge is a researcher and computer technician at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College, London. Rob Kitchin is a lecturer in Human Geography at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.
Summary
This book is a geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace. It will be a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on cyberspace and what it means for the future.
Report
'Mapping Cyberspace is an important pioneering work. The authors have performed a valuable service and have produced an essential reference for anyone seriously interested in the spatial, social, economic and cultural implications of telecommunications infrastructure and cyberspace.' - William J Mitchell, Environment and Planning
'The book provides a clear and broad introduction to major theoretical. Methodical, and empirical issues related to cyberspace research. Mapping Cyberspace is a critical first stop for any researcher interested in contributing new knowledge in this exciting emerging field.' - Joshua Lepawsky, University of Kentucky for Cultural Geographies
