[Air-l] Space and Place
Charles Hendricksen
veritas at u.washington.edu
Wed Feb 4 16:50:22 PST 2004
As a geographer I must put my oar into this pond. On of the more
pervasive meanings of space is *context*, for example cultural. In the
experienced world our reality is a set of superimposed spaces: academe,
queer space, the dark nation, kid space, etc. As we move about the
physical world we may have no knowledge of how important a place is in
different spaces.
Cyberspace is the physical world seen through the eyes of those who
communicate on the internet. Cyberspace has holes in it: places not
served by the internet. Cyberspace has regions served by Wi-Fi
networks. Cyberspace has places or nodes where communication channels
converge.
Mapping is another term that is related to space. One speaks of a
mapping of one phenomenon over the space of another. The space may be
physical or conceptual.
Martin Dodge has been the leader in defining the geographies of
cyberspace. See
http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html
--
Charlie Hendricksen, PhD
Research Collaboration Architect
"Information technology structures human relationships."
Dissertation link: http://depts.washington.edu/bkn/public/pubs/diss.html
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