Mapping Cyberspace

by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin

Book Overview

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
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415198844
• ISBN13: 9780415198844
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.8" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Cyberspace Overview

As with any book covering the evolving space we call cyberspace, this book is dated at its printing. However, the issues and thoughts brought up in it are ones that are valid over time. A must read.

Geography and the Web

Cyberspace has a connectivity all its own; these days most commonly expressed by the linkages between HTML documents put on the web. Conversely, the real world has a physical geography. Thus far, there have been some linkages between the two, like mapping software on the web.But the authors go way beyond that simple application. They provide imaginative suggestions of how cyberspace, and most importantly, a pervasive wireless connectivity to it, can enable a nomadic environment where you can get information from cyberspace about your physical surroundings. Plus, of course, enhanced interactions with those surroundings, based on this data. It appears that the study and use of geography, as currently performed, may soon undergo profound changes, in a way that will give it key commercial utility.