Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations

ISBN-13: 9780415168281 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 336 str.

Mike Crang; Phil Crang; Jon May

Opis

Exploring the possibilities and dangers brought by the revolution in communication technologies, this text outlines how these technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space. The contributors reveal that new communication technologies open up whole new vistas. Leading contributors drawn from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, English and philosophy investigate how particular visions of cyberspace have been constructed and articulated through the influence of literature and gender, and how the experience of online interaction is expressed. A scepticism emerges of the consequences of cyberspace. This leads to a critical assessment of the status of virtual environments and geographies, how they interact with more everyday spaces and how they may reshape how we think and write about the world. The book sets developments in a more developed historical and geographical context, enabling an assessment of the possibilities such developments hold for the creation of new spaces of interaction.

Recenzje

'This is an interesting collection of essays with much to recommend it.' - Progress in Human Geography

Spis treści

1 Introduction PART I Embedding the virtual 2 Toward the light ‘within’: optical technologies, spatial metaphors and changing subjectivities 3 The telephone: its social shaping and public negotiation in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century London 4 Consumers or workers?: restructuring telecommunications in Aotearoa/New Zealand 5 Transnationalism, technoscience and difference: the analysis of material-semiotic practices 6 The convergence of virtual and actual in the Global Matrix: artificial life, geo-economics and psychogeography PART II Cyberscapes 7 From city space to cyberspace 8 Geographies of surveillant simulation 9 Rural telematics: The Information Society and rural development 10 Internauts and guerrilleros: the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico and its extension into cyberspace 11 Gender and the landscapes of computing in an Internet café PART III Thinking and writing the virtual 12 The virtual realities of technology and fiction: reading William Gibson’s cyberspace 13 On boundfulness: the space of hypertext bodies 14 Unthinkable complexity? Cyberspace otherwise 15 Virtual worlds: simulation, suppletion, s(ed)uction and simulacra

O autorze

Mike Crang, Phil Crang, Jon May