Atlas of Cyberspace
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ISBN: 0201745755 / Publisher: Addison-Wesley, January 2002
Reveals the geography of cyberspace using modern cartographic and visualization techniques, focusing on Internet infrastructure and traffic flows; the Web; online communities; and artistic, literary, and film speculations.
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The fledgling field of cybergeography seeks to provide a visual "big picture" of the shape-shifting entity that is the Internet, giving people a sense of space that is difficult to grasp by navigation alone. Dodge (University College, London) and Kitchin (National U. of Ireland), who also wrote Mapping cyberspace , spent five years collating maps and research papers and interviewing the maps' creators to produce this first, comprehensive guide to the visual representation of cyberspace media. A book that is beautiful as well as densely packed with information, it covers facets of the Net from the history of telecommunications to Web sites, e-mail, virtual worlds, and game space. Wide format: 10.25x10
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