Mapping Cyberspace

A ground-breaking book, "Mapping Cyberspace" provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that take place there. Written by and inter-disciplinary team of scholars this study explores the impacts of cyberspace on cultural, political and economic relations. Information on a companion website is also included.

Mapping Cyberspace is a ground-breaking geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies. The book:* provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that occur there* explores the impacts of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies, on cultural, political and economic relations* charts the spatial forms of virutal spaces* details empirical research and examines a wide variety of maps and spatialisations of cyberspace and the information society* has a related website at http://www.MappingCyberspace.com.This book will be a valuable addition to the growing body of literature on cyberspace and what it means for the future.

1:Introducing Cyberspace; 2:Geographies of the Information Society; 3:Geographies of Cyberspace; 4:Introducing the Cartographies of Cyberspace; 5:Mapping Information and Communication Technologies; 6:Spatialising Cyberspace; 7:Mapping Asynchronous Media; 8:Mapping Synchronous Media; 9:Spatial Cognition of Cyberspace; 10:Imaginative Mappings of Cyberspace; 11:Future Mappings of Cyberspace

Martin Dodge is a researcher and computer technician at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College, London. Rob Kitchin is a lecturer in Human Geography at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.