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Virtual geographies : bodies, space, and relations / edited by Mike Crang, Phil Crang, and Jon May.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Sussex studies in culture and communicationPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: x, 322 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0415168279
  • 0415168287 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48/33 21
Contents:
CONTENTS: Introduction-- Part I: Embedding the virtual -- Toward the light 'within': optical technologies, spatial metaphors and changing subjectivities -- The telephone: its social shaping and public negotiation in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century London -- Consumers or workers?: restructuring telecommunications in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Transnationalism, technoscience and difference: the analysis of material- semiotic practices -- The convergence of virtual and actual in the Global Matrix: artificial life, geo- economics and psychogeography -- Part II: Cyberscapes -- From city space to cyberspace --Geographies of surveillant simulation -- Rural telematics: The Information Society and rural development -- 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 -- The virtual realities of technology and fiction: reading William Gibson's cyberspace -- On boundfulness: the space of hypertext bodies -- Unthinkable complexity? Cyberspace otherwise -- Virtual worlds: simulation, suppletion, s(ed)uction and simulacra -- References -- Index.
Summary: "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."
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [284]-314).

CONTENTS: Introduction-- Part I: Embedding the virtual -- Toward the light 'within': optical technologies, spatial metaphors and changing subjectivities -- The telephone: its social shaping and public negotiation in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century London -- Consumers or workers?: restructuring telecommunications in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Transnationalism, technoscience and difference: the analysis of material- semiotic practices -- The convergence of virtual and actual in the Global Matrix: artificial life, geo- economics and psychogeography -- Part II: Cyberscapes -- From city space to cyberspace --Geographies of surveillant simulation -- Rural telematics: The Information Society and rural development -- 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 -- The virtual realities of technology and fiction: reading William Gibson's cyberspace -- On boundfulness: the space of hypertext bodies -- Unthinkable complexity? Cyberspace otherwise -- Virtual worlds: simulation, suppletion, s(ed)uction and simulacra -- References -- Index.

"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."

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