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 * details empirical research and examines a wide variety of maps and spatialisations of cyberspace and the information society * has a...
Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technolo...
Space is central to our lives. Because of this, much attention is directed at understanding and explaining the geographic world. This text extends this analysis to provide a geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace and information and communication technologies. The author provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that take place there and explores the impacts of cyberspace - information and communication technologies - on cultural, political and economic relations.
Space is central to our lives. Because of this, much attention is directed at understanding and explaining the geographic world. This text extends thi...
Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications is a 'state-of-the-art' review of the latest developments in the subject. It examines how new concepts, methods and tools can be creatively applied to solve problems relevant to a wide range of topics. The text covers the impact of three-dimensional displays on user interaction along with the potentialities in animation and clearly explains how to create temporally sensitive visualizations. It also explores the potential for handling mobile data and representing uncertainty; as well as the role of participatory visualization...
Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications is a 'state-of-the-art' review of the latest developments in the subject. It examine...
Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being rethought, made and used, and what these changes mean for working cartographers, applied mapping research, and cartographic scholarship. It offers a contemporary assessment of the diverse forms that mapping now takes and, drawing upon a number of theoretic perspectives and disciplines, provides an insightful commentary on new ontological and epistemological thinking with respect to cartography.
This book presents...
Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore ho...
After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air traffic control system that guides our plane in for a landing, software is shaping our world: it creates new ways of undertaking tasks, speeds up and automates existing practices, transforms social and economic relations, and offers new forms of cultural activity, personal empowerment, and modes of play. In Code/Space, Rob Kitchin and Martin Dodge examine software from a...
After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our every...