The Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations

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This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how htese, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity.

Virtual Geographies explores how new communication technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space. Leading contributors from a wide range of disciplines including geography, sociology, philosophy and literature:
* investigate how visions of cyberspace have been constructed
* offer a critical assessment of the status of virtual environments and geographies
* explore how virtual environments reshape the way we think and write about the world. This book sets recent technological developments in a historical and geographical perspective to offer a clearer view of the new vistas ahead.

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Explores the possibilities and dangers of the recent revolution in communication technologies. Outlining how these technologies are used to produce new virtual geographies and new types of space, the book's contributors attempt to demystify cyberspace and reveal how new communication technologies can open up new vistas. The anthology's 16 essayists<-->from geography, sociology, English, and philosophy<-->investigate such topics as the influence of literature and gender, and the rhetoric of online interaction. All essays are unified by several approaches to cyberspace: eschewal of simple technodeterminism, remembrance of already existing virtual geographies, and exploration of a variety of new virtual geographies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415168281
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 6/28/1999
Series: Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication Series
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 0.80 (d)

	List of illustrations
	List of contributors
	Acknowledgements
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Embedding the virtual	21
2	Toward the light 'within': optical technologies, spatial metaphors and changing subjectivities	23
3	The telephone: its social shaping and public negotiation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century London	44
4	Consumers or workers?: restructuring telecommunications in Aotearoa/New Zealand	63
5	Transnationalism, technoscience and difference: the analysis of material - semiotic practices	79
6	The convergence of virtual and actual in the Global Matrix: artificial life, geo-economics and psychogeography	92
Pt. II	Cyberscapes	107
7	From city space to cyberspace	109
8	Geographies of surveillant simulation	131
9	Rural telematics: The Information Society and rural development	149
10	Internauts and guerrilleros: the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico and its extension into cyberspace	164
11	Gender and the landscapes of computing in an Internet cafe	178
Pt. III	Thinking and writing the virtual	203
12	The virtual realities of technology and fiction: reading William Gibson's cyberspace	205
13	On boundfulness: the space of hypertext bodies	222
14	Unthinkable complexity? Cyberspace otherwise	244
15	Virtual worlds: simulation, suppletion, s(ed)uction and simulacra	261
	References	284
	Index	315

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