Geographic Interpretations of the Internet

✍ Scribed by Aharon Kellerman (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 131
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Geography
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book introduces the Internet through a systematic geographical interpretation, thus shedding light on the Internet as a spatial entity. The book’s approach is to extend basic concepts developed for terrestrial geography to cyberspace, most notably those relating to space, structure, place, distance, mobility, and presence. It further considers the Internet by its constitution of information space, communications space, and screen space. By using well-known concepts from traditional human geography, this book proposes a combination of terrestrial and virtual geographies, which may in turn help in coping with Internet structures and contents. The book appeals to human and economic geographers, especially those interested in information and Internet geographies. It may also be of special interest and importance to sociologists and media scholars and students dealing with communication technology and the Internet.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: The Internet and Geography....Pages 1-19
The Internet as Space....Pages 21-33
Geographical Structures in the Internet....Pages 35-50
Distance in the Internet....Pages 51-69
Mobility Over the Internet....Pages 71-98
Internet Spatial Cognition....Pages 99-106
Summary and Conclusion....Pages 107-121

✦ Subjects

Human Geography; Economic Geography; Media Sociology; Media and Communication; Computers and Society