TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Crang, Mike.
AU  - Crang,Mike
AU  - Crang,Phil
AU  - May,Jon
TI  - Virtual geographies: bodies, space, and relations 
SN  - 0415168279
U1  - 303.48/33 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Computer networks
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Virtual reality
N1  - 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
N2  - "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."
ER  -