The Political Mapping of Cyberspace - Softcover

Crampton, Dr. Jeremy W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748614133 ISBN 13: 9780748614134

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This book is about the politics of cyberspace. It shows that cyberspace is no mere virtual reality but a rich geography of practices and power relations. Using concepts and methods derived from the work of Michel Foucault, Jeremy Crampton explores the construction of digital subjectivity, web identity and authenticity, as well as the nature and consequences of the digital divide between the connected and those abandoned in limbo. He demonstrates that it is by processes of mapping that we understand cyberspace and in doing so delineates the critical role maps play in constructing cyberspace as an object of knowledge. Maps, he argues, shape political thinking about cyberspace, and he deploys in-depth case studies of crime mapping, security and geo-surveillance to show how we map ourselves onto cyberspace, inexorably and indelibly. Clearly argued and vigorously written, this book offers a powerful reinterpretation of cyberspace, politics and contemporary life.

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A timely book A timely book

About the Author

Jeremy W. Crampton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Geography at Georgia State University. He received his PhD in 1994 from Penn State University. He is the author of numerous articles on social and technical aspects of mapping. He lives in Atlanta.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0748614133
• ISBN 13: 9780748614134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214