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We don't normally consider maps contentious, but the Atlas of Cyberspace makes us think otherwise. Information cartographers Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin show off a wide range of possibilities in representing the vast realms of data existing on and supporting the Internet. Since so many of these models were created to display never-before-charted territories, the book is largely devoted to analyzing their accuracy, ease of development and use, potential for abuse, and other qualities.
We don't normally consider maps contentious, but the Atlas of Cyberspace makes us think otherwise. Information cartographers Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin show off a wide range of possibilities in representing the vast realms of data existing on and supporting the Internet. Since so many of these models were created to display never-before-charted territories, the book is largely devoted to analyzing their accuracy, ease of development and use, potential for abuse, and other qualities.
Chapters cover infrastructural elements, the Web, communities, and creative renderings of cyberspace, and contain both compelling images and thought-provoking texts. Though it ends up feeling more like a catalog of visual display methods than a reference book detailing virtual geography, its examples still inform and startle the viewer with unexpected transformations of data into understanding, and, occasionally, art. --Rob Lightner
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Explores the new cartographic and visualization techniques being employed in the mapping of cyberspace, concentrating on the areas of; Internet infrastructure and traffic flows, the World Wide Web, Online conversation and community, and Imaging cyberspace in art, literature and film.
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- Information Spaces: The Architecture of Cyberspace by Robert M. Colomb on page 187, and Back Matter
- Information Visualization by Chaomei Chen on page 19, and Back Matter
- Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon by Chaomei Chen on page 20, and page 254
- The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty, The Power and the Sense of Fractals by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon on page 104, and page 126
- The Student's Companion to Geography by Alisdair Rogers on page 303
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