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 these, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity. This work will be of essential interest to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, geography, cultural studies and media studies.

part |2 pages

Part 1 Urban space, cyberspace and global space

chapter 1|19 pages

Ephemeral cities

Postmodern urbanism and the production of online space

chapter 2|19 pages

Public space, urban space and electronic space

Would the real city please stand up?

chapter 3|19 pages

Demonstrating the globe

Virtual action in the network society

chapter 4|20 pages

The space of telework: physical and virtual config- urations for remote work

Physical and virtual configurations for remote work

chapter 5|23 pages

‘The gaze without eyes’

Video surveillance and the changing nature of urban space

chapter 6|16 pages

Telecommunications and the future of cities

Debunking the myths

part |2 pages

Part 2 Tourist geography as virtual reality

chapter 7|17 pages

Monocultures of globalization

Touring Australia’s Gold Coast

chapter 9|15 pages

Architectures of entertainment

chapter 11|17 pages

Resort curtilages

The creation of physical and psychological tourism spaces