The Political Mapping of Cyberspace: Cartography, Communication and Power

by Crampton, Jeremy W.

• ISBN13: 9780748614134
• ISBN10: 0748614133
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-07
• Publisher: Gardners Books

Summary

This book is about the politics of cyberspace. It shows that cyberspace is no mere virtual reality but a rich geography of practices and power relations. Using concepts and methods derived from the work of Michel Foucault, Jeremy Crampton explores the construction of digital subjectivity, web identity and authenticity, as well as the nature and consequences of the digital divide between the connected and those abandoned in limbo.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Being Virtually There: The Spatial Problematics of "Cyberspace"	p. 9
Cartographic Power-Knowledges
The History of Internet Mapping	p. 27
Why Mapping is Political	p. 48
Technologies of the Self
Authenticity and Authentication	p. 73
Communities in Cyberspace: Confession and Parrhesia	p. 94
Case Studies in the Production of Cyberspace
Disciplinary Cyberspaces: Security and Surveillance	p. 117
Geographies of the Digital Divide	p. 141
Conclusion
Positivities of Power, Possibilities of Pleasure	p. 171
Notes	p. 188
References	p. 196
Index	p. 209
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