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Synopsis
Mapping Cyberspace is a groundbreaking 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 virtual spaces
* details empirical research and examines a wide variety of maps and spatialisations of cyberspace and the information society
* has a related website at http://www.MappingCyberspace.com.
This book will be a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on cyberspace and what it means for the future.
Booknews
Provides a geographical analysis of information and communication technologies and cyberspace, and their relationship to social, cultural, political, and economic life. Dodge (University College London) and Kitchgin (National University of Ireland) chart the spatialities, spatial forms and space-time relations of virtual space, and explore what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that take place there. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)