This book introduces the Internet through a systematic geographical interpretation, thus shedding light on the Internet as a spatial entity. The books 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.
1. Introduction.- 2 The Internet as space.- 3 Geographical structures in the Internet.- 4 Distance in the Internet.- 5 Mobility over the Internet.- 6 Conclusion.
This is a nice little volume that attempts to bring conventional geographic notions into the understanding of cyberspace. & The volume would be a useful supplement to courses on the information economy and cyberspace. (Barney Warf, Geography Research Forum, Vol. 36, 2016)
Prof. Aharon Kellerman was born in 1945 in Haifa, Israel. He completed his Bachelors degree in Geography and Jewish History at the University of Haifa, in 1969. In 1971, he received a High School Teaching Certificate from the same institution. He then went on to complete his Masters degree in Geography, with honors, at the Hebrew University in 1972. In 1976, he completed his Doctoral degree, also in Geography, at Boston University in the United States.
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