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.
Author(s): Mike Crang
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 336
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Contents......Page 4
List of illustrations......Page 7
List of contributors......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 11
Introduction......Page 13
Embedding the virtual......Page 33
Toward the light 'within': optical technologies, spatial metaphors and changing subjectivities......Page 35
The telephone: its social shaping and public negotiation in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century London......Page 56
