CyberGeography.org

cybergeography.org
Visit Website
Website Information


                           TakeTheWikiTourBadgelet2.png           WatchTheIntroVideoBadgelet2.png


edit Title

Welcome to Cyber-Geography Research

edit Description

CyberGeography is the study of the spatial nature of computer communications networks, particularly the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other electronic "places" that exist behind our computer screens, popularly referred to as cyberspace. Cybergeography encompasses a wide range of geographical phenomena from the study of the physical infrastructure, traffic flows, the demographics of the new cyberspace communities, to the perception and visualisation of these new digital spaces. In addition, the potential geographical impacts of Cyberspace technologies on real-space needs to be examined. There are many geographies of cyberspace and many geographical approaches to study them. The emphasis of Cyber-Geography Research tends to be on the more quantitative aspects of measuring and mapping the geography of cyberspaces.

The Cyber-Geography Research initiative is directed by Martin Dodge, a geographer and enthusiastic cyberspace explorer. He is a researcher in the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London. Cyber-Geography Research has no official funding as such and is an academic research project. Cyber-Geography Research maintains three major publications on the Web that provide a comprehensive catalogue of information resources, data sources, maps of the Internet and visualisations of the Web as well as and articles on all aspects of cybergeography. They are the:

The Geography of Cyberspace Directory was started in 1996 as a Web resource listing of annotated hyperlinks and references on all aspects of the geographies of the Internet, Web and other Cyberspaces. The Directory is regularly updated and includes sections on "Mapping the Internet", "Global Internet Diffusion" and "Visualising Information Spaces".

read more

edit Languages

English

edit Address

5 Moat Way
Queenborough, Kent ME11 5BU UNITED KINGDOM

edit Contact

CyberGeography Research
+44 20 7430 8000, Fax: +44 20 7430 8099

edit Additional Information

edit Related Domains

edit External Links