Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations

by Crang,Mike; Crang,Mike

• ISBN13: 9780415168281
• ISBN10: 0415168287
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Virtual Geographiesexplores 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 and offer a critical assessment of the status of virtual environments and geographies. Leading contributors set recent technological developments in both a historical and geographical perspective to offer a clearer view of the prospect ahead.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	viii
Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	1	(20)
Mike Crang
Phil Crang
Jon May
PART I Embedding the virtual	21	(86)
Toward the light `within': optical technologies, spatial metaphors and changing subjectivities	23	(21)
Ken Hillis
The telephone: its social shaping and public negotiation in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century London	44	(19)
Jeremy Stein
Consumers or workers?: restructuring telecommunications in Aotearoa/New Zealand	63	(16)
Wendy Larner
Transnationalism, technoscience and difference: the analysis of material--semiotic practices	79	(13)
Laura Chernaik
The convergence of virtual and actual in the Global Matrix: artificial life, geo-economics and psychogeography	92	(15)
Otto Imken
PART II Cyberscapes	107	(96)
From city space to cyberspace	109	(22)
Jennifer S. Light
Geographies of surveillant simulation	131	(18)
Stephen Graham
Rural telematics: The Information Society and rural development	149	(15)
Christopher Ray
Hilary Talbot
Internauts and guerrilleros: the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico and its extension into cyberspace	164	(14)
Oliver Froehling
Gender and the landscapes of computing in an Internet cafe	178	(25)
Nina Wakeford
PART III Thinking and writing the virtual	203	(81)
The virtual realities of technology and fiction: reading William Gibson's cyberspace	205	(17)
James Kneale
On boundfulness: the space of hypertext bodies	222	(22)
Michael Joyce
Unthinkable complexity? Cyberspace otherwise	244	(17)
Nick Bingham
Virtual worlds: simulation, suppletion, s(ed)uction and simulacra	261	(23)
Marcus A. Doel
David B. Clarke
References	284	(31)
Index	315