Mapping Cyberspace

By M. Dodge, Rob Kitchin. 2000

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From the Publisher: "Space is central to our lives. Because of this, much attention is directed at understanding and explaining the geographic world. Mapping Cyberspace is a book, which extends this analysis to provide a geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace and information and communication technologies. Mapping Cyberspace: provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that take place there; explores the impacts of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies, on cultural, political and economic relations; charts the spatialities, spatial forms and space-time relations of virtual spaces; and details empirical research and examines a wide variety of maps and spatialisations of cyberspace and the information society." "Mapping Cyberspace draws together the findings and theories of researchers from geography, cartography, sociology, cultural studies, computer-mediated communications, information visualisation, literary theory and cognitive psychology. It is illustrated with over fifty black and white illustrations and a colour plate section. This book will be a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on cyberspace and what it means for the future."--BOOK JACKET.

Subfields: Media Technology

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The Spaces and Times of Globalization: Place, Scale, Networks, and Positionality* (2002, background): “Contemporary maps of telecommunications flows show multiple wormholes of high bandwidth teleconnectivity linking key places in the global economy, with few and often indirect linkages to peripherally positioned places (Dodge and Kitchen 2001, plate 2).”
Digital turn, digital geographies? (2018, background): “Initially, this work concentrated on how ICTs, and the Internet in particular, were transforming economic, cultural, social, and political geographies.”
Parenting gone wired: empowerment of new mothers on the internet? (2006, background): “For many people cyberspaces have become so integrated into their everyday lives they have become ‘real’ spaces (Dodge and Kitchin 2001: 21).”
The Economic Geography of the Internet’s Infrastructure* (2002, background): “Generally, the many geographies of cyberspace and other virtual spaces are only beginning to be understood (Adams 1997; Crang 2000; Dodge and Kitchin 2000; Donert 2000; Kitchin 1998).”
Beyond the geotag: situating ‘big data’ and leveraging the potential of the geoweb (2013, background): “Thismap, however, hides a number of issues that confound any one-dimensional mapping as any use of social media has a number of locations (e.g., sender, recipient, content, server, software, packet switching paths, etc.) that might be relevant in a given analysis (Zook and Dodge 2009).”
Tracing the Everyday 'Sitings' of Adolescents on the Internet: a strategic adaptation of ethnography across online and offline spaces (2003, methodology): “…being shaped by geographic metaphors from offline life (e.g. chat rooms, home pages, online communities, virtual landscapes and worlds, MUD lobbies, online cafes, etc.), which are arguably used to create an online ‘sense of place’ that resonates with life offline (Dodge & Kitchin, 2001, p. 56).”
The Exaggerated Death of Geography (2004, unknown): “To avoid sterile polarisations between physical and virtual proximity, between geographic space and cyberspace, the most defensible position would be to acknowledge that these intersect with one another in a complex fashion: that is to say, cyberspace is not a paraspace, a separate realm to geograph”