By Aharon Kellerman
This e-book introduces the net via a scientific geographical interpretation, hence laying off gentle on the net as a spatial entity. The book’s strategy is to increase simple thoughts constructed for terrestrial geography to our on-line world, such a lot significantly these in relation to area, constitution, position, distance, mobility, and presence. It additional considers the net by way of its structure of data house, communications house, and display house. by utilizing famous options from conventional human geography, this publication proposes a mix of terrestrial and digital geographies, which could in flip assist in dealing with net constructions and contents. The ebook appeals to human and monetary geographers, specially these drawn to details and net geographies. it may possibly even be of distinctive curiosity and significance to sociologists and media students and scholars facing conversation expertise and the Internet.
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The users pf these latter websites may consider such websites as places, notably if they are designed similarly to the brick-and-mortar structures of such facilities in real space. g. Harvey 1989; Merrifield 1993; Soja 1989; Chap. 1), suggest that ‘abstract space’, produced by capitalist forces, has overruled ‘concrete space’ (or places) of everyday life. As we noted in Chap. 1, this is expressed through individuals’ spatial practices, through professional representations of space, such as by planners, as well as through artistic and portrayed spaces of representation (see also Agnew 2011; Kellerman 2014, pp.
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2004), and it further interacts with real environments (Light 1999; Graham 1998). Cyberspace has also been variously defined from spatial perspectives since the early 1990s (see also Kellerman 2014): 1. Artificial reality: ‘Cyberspace is a globally networked, computer-sustained, computer-accessed, and computer-generated, multidimensional, artificial, or ‘virtual’, reality’ (Benedikt 1991, p. 122; see also Kitchin 1998a, p. 2). 2. Interactivity space: ‘Interactivity between remote computers defines cyberspace…cyberspace is not necessarily imagined space—it is real enough in that it is the space set up by those who use remote computers to communicate’ (Batty 1997, p.