Mapping Cyberspace provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that take place there explores the impacts of cyberspace, and information and communication technologies, on cultural, political and economic relations. Mapping Cyberspace draws together the findings and theories of researchers from geography, cartography, sociology, cultural studies, computer-mediated communications, information visualisation, literary theory and cognitive psychology. It is highly illustrated with 8 pages colour plates and over 50 black and white figures. 10 Imaginative Mappings of Cyberspace 11 Future Mappings of Cyberspace Notes Bibliography Index Preface Space is an essential framework of all modes of thought. From physics to aesthetics, from myth and magic to common everyday life, space, in conjunction with time, provides a fundamental ordering system for interlacing every facet of thought.
Space is central to our lives.
We live and interact in space. Our lives are rooted and given context by the places we live in, the communities we inhabit, our sites of home, work and leisure, and are shaped by complex socio-spatial processes that operate across many levels, from the local to the global scale. In turn, spaces are produced and given meaning through social practices creating places. People's daily lives consist of a myriad of spatial behaviours, relationships and movements across and within spaces. Moreover, the world is geographically demarcated.