| Virtual Geographies: Bodies, Space and Relations Contributor(s): Crang, Mike (Editor), Crang, Phil (Editor), May, Jon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415168287 ISBN-13: 9780415168281 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1999 Annotation: "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 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography - Technology & Engineering | Social Aspects - Computers | Information Technology |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 98030450 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Series: Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.16" W x 9.2" (1.00 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |