Mapping Cyberspace

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Chapter 1. Introducing cyberspace	Chapter 2. Geographies of the information society
What is cyberspace? Internet and intranets Virtual reality A brief history History of the Internet History of virtual reality Why ICTs and cyberspace matter Space / spacelessness Place / placelessness Industrial / post-industrial Public / private Broadcasters / listeners Real / virtual Nature / technology Fixed / fluid Approaching cyberspace The utopians Social constructivists The political economic position Beyond modernism Theorising space	Introduction Cultural and social geographies Global culturalisation Place, community and identity Geographies of power Political structures Space of surveillance Geographies of exclusion Urban, regional and global restructuring Globalisation of trade Office automation and back-offices Teleworking, telecottages and teleports Organisational and employment restructuring Urban-regional restructuring Soft cities Dual economy societies An example of urban-regional restructuring: Dublin Conclusion

Chapter 3. Geographies of cyberspace	Chapter 4. Introducing the cartographies of cyberspace
Introduction Spatiality of cyberspace Cyberspace, identity and community Online geographies of power and exclusions Spatial geometries, form and structures	Introduction A brief history of cartography Why 'map' ICTs and cyberspace? The challenge of spatialising cyberspace A typology of mapping cyberspace Issues to consider Data quality and availability Level of user knowledge Representation Power of mapping Ethics Geographic space online

Chapter 5. Mapping information and communication technologies	Chapter 6. Spatialising cyberspace
Maps of infrastructure Static and animated maps of infrastructure Interactive maps of infrastructure Dynamic maps of infrastructure Maps of Internet Traffic Static and animated maps of Internet traffic and activity Interactive maps of Internet activity Dynamic maps of Internet activity Temporal aspects of ICTs	Introduction Topological maps of networks and the Internet Mapping the information space of the Internet 'Flat' spatialisation of information space Landscapes of information Information spaces

Chapter 7. Mapping asynchronous media	Chapter 8. Mapping synchronous media
Introduction Characterising the social media of cyberspace Email as social medium Mailing Lists From badgers to body arts: newsgroups on anything and everything	Introduction Live conversations in chat Worlds of writing Mapping MUDs / MUDs as maps Virtual Worlds The spatial forms and geometries of AlphaWorld Spatial mobility in AlphaWorld Spatialities of AlphaWorld The Socio-spatial construction of space in AlphaWorld

Chapter 9. Spatial cognition of cyberspace	Chapter 10. Imaginative mappings of cyberspace
Introduction Cognising geographic space Cognising cyberspace Cognising virtual worlds Cognising hypertext Increasing spatial legibility	Introduction Imaginative geographies of science fiction Mapping the present / mapping the future Real / virtual Public / private spaces Hard / soft city Place / placeless and space / spaceless Nature / technology Summary

Chapter 11. Future mappings of cyberspace Introduction Agendas for future studies Philosophical, theoretical, empirical Geographies of the information society Geographies of cyberspace Final worlds Notes Bibliography


	mapping cyberspace Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchin
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