Virtual Geographies (eBook, PDF)

Bodies, Space and Relations
Redaktion: Crang, Mike; May, Jon; Crang, Phil

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Virtual Geographies explores the possibilities and dangers brought by the revolution in communication technologies, outlining how these technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134703753
• Artikelnr.: 38265334

Autorenporträt

Mike Crang, Phil Crang, Jon May

Inhaltsangabe

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