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Review
by Joshua Lepawsky in Cultural Geographies, 2002,
Vol. 9, pages 483-485.
| "... overall Mapping Cyberspace is
a strong text. The book provides a clear and broad introduction
to major theoretical, methodological, 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." (page
485) |
The full review
is available (pdf format).
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Review
by Christine Hine in Sociology, August 2002, Vol.
36, No. 3, pages 776-778.
| "Dodge and Kitchin's Mapping Cyberspace
is an intriguing read, with a usefulness to readers well
beyond the primary audience of (cyber)geographers. The early
review chapters cover a wide territory of literature relating
to the development of the internet and of cyberstudies,
which serves as a clear and coherent introduction to the
field." (page 776) |
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Review
by Robert Latham in International Studies Review,
Spring 2002, Vol. 4, No. 1, pages 101-115.
| "Dodge and Kitchin's book serves to
convey in detail how cyberspace is conceived as space and
how geographers will begin to approach this subject."
(page 114) |
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Review by Darren Purcell in Progress in Human Geography,
2002, Vol. 26, No. 4, pages 575-576.
| "Dodge and Kitchin provide a strong
contribution to the growing literature in geography and
cyberspace, charting multiple areas to which scholars im
many subdisciplines of geography may contribute." |
The full review is available
(pdf format).
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Review by Robert Lloyd in the International Journal
of Geographical Information Science, May 2002, Vol. 16,
No. 3, pages 302-303.
The full review is available
(pdf format).
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Review by William J Mitchell in Environment and Planning
A, February 2002, Vol. 34, No. 2, pages 369-370.
The full review is available
(pdf format).
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Review by David Maguire in Environment and Planning
B: Planning and Design, March 2002, Vol. 29, pages 308-309.
The full review is available
(pdf format).
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Review by Denise Pumain in CYBERGEO, 26/02/02.
"The work has three main virtues: it gathers together
and organizes a considerable quantity of information and cartographic
documents related to the new technologies of information and
communication; it analyses this information and offers a synthesis
of the lines of research proposed in this decidedly ‘new’ geography.
(The full
review is available. Also, a local
pdf format version.)
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Review
by Barney Warf in The Geographical Journal, December
2001, vol. 167, no. 4, pages 381-382.
(Click here to read page
381 and page 382 of
the review.)
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Review by James O. Wheeler in Urban Geography,
2001, Vol. 22, No. 6, page 604.
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Review
by David Unwin in Geography, July 2001, Vol.
86, No. 3, page 269. |
The full review is available.
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Sistema Terra, December 2000, vol. IX,
no. 1-3, page 159.
(Click to read the full the review.)
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Review by Peter H. Salus in Matrix News,
Issue 11.1, January 2001.
Cybercartography
Mapping Cyberspace is a brilliant attempt
at grappling with the the representation of what has been called
cyberspace. I say representation because Dodge and Kitchin are
not merely geographers or cartographers. They are also concerned
with the socio-cultural concepts that Baudrillard (or Greimas
or Derrida) would endorse.
(Click here
to read the whole review.)
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Review by Menno-Jan Kraak in Geoinformatics
Magazine, March 2001.
Mapping Cyberspace
The title of this book, Mapping Cyberspace, is
intriguing. Cyberspace, defined in the book as "referring to
the conceptual space within ICT rather than technology itself",
opens up a whole new realm for the mapping and geographical
sciences.
(Click here for a scan of
the whole page review.)
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c't Magazine, no. 4, 4/01, page 244
Der Spiegel, no. 33, 14/8/00, page 161
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Reviews Amazon.co.uk
The study of cyberspace crosses intellectual and
academic boundaries, encompassing geography, cartography, sociology,
studies of culture, communications, even literary theory and
cognitive psychology. Researcher and computer technician Martin
Dodge and geographer Rob Kitchin have put their collective experience
together to produce a volume (and matching Web site: www.MappingCyberspace.com)
examining how visually to represent this new space in which
we now spend so much of our time.
Other writers--William Gibson, Neal Stephenson
and Pat Cadigan, to name but a few--have explored this subject
in a speculative, fictional way, but this is largely tough,
academic stuff, everything from mapping techniques to "the spatial
cognition of cyberspace" with a little critical theory thrown
in for bad measure.
The two started with Dodge's Web site www.cybergeography.org/atlas
and meant to create a coffee-table book, but found it "mutated
into a book concerned solely with the spatialities and geometries
of cyberspace" and then to it's present, somewhat dry form.
It shows. You can't help feeling the book would
have benefited from fewer words and more pictures; the authors
have obviously read Tufte's Envisioning Information but could
apply his insights better. Nevertheless, it's a good introduction
to an activity so challenging one source calls it "more formidable
than that faced by the sea captains of the past". --Liz Bailey
< http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415198844/
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HannaHodge User Experience Architects UXblog
Tuesday, December 12, 2000
Mapping Cyberspace
We haven't seen the book yet, but judging by the
site, Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin's Mapping Cyberspace is worth
a look. For all the talk in the industry about navigation and
information architecture, there are ideas here that could still
use more hype. For instance, "sometimes structure *is* content."
The landscape as a whole can be as interesting and informative
as any of the places on the map. Check out the gallery for a
lot of inspiring scenery. We're not sure much of this is ready
for direct application to the workaday web; a lot of it was
created for very narrow or specialized audiences. But it's great
to have all this material in one place. It reminds us that it's
possible to fit a *lot* of information in a single view, and
that there are new exciting ruts for us to get stuck in well
beyond the "sites and pages" metaphor. We also like the fact
that Dodge and Kitchin draw attention to the social interactions
that take place on this new landscape. Not pages, places. Not
interactions with pages, but interactions in and through places,
social exchanges shaped by place.
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"This
is an excellent,innovative and thought-provoking book. It does
a valuable service to the discipline of geography by demonstrating
most effectively that even in cyberspace, geography still matters."
Andy Gillespie, University of Newcastle |
"This
book displays enormous work and a depth of knowledge that will
be invaluable to the researcher, student and the interested lay
reader."
Mike Crang, University of Durham |
| "A
bold undertaking that contributes significantly to geography's
understanding of the multiple facets of cyberspace." Francis
Harvey, University of Kentucky |
(c) 2002 Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin
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