ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |86 pages
Part I Embedding the virtual
chapter 2|21 pages
Toward the light ‘within'
chapter 3|19 pages
The telephone
chapter 5|13 pages
Transnationalism, technoscience and difference
chapter 6|15 pages
The convergence of virtual and actual in the Global Matrix
part |95 pages
Part II Cyberscapes
chapter 10|14 pages
Internauts and guerrilleros
part |81 pages
Part III Thinking and writing the virtual