Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Mapping Cyberspace Issues to consider when viewing images Structure of the book Final words Chapter 2: Mapping Infrastructure and Traffic Historical maps of telecommunications Maps from the birth of the Net Mapping where the wires, fibre-optic cables and satellites really are Infrastructure census maps Domain name maps Marketing maps of Internet service providers Interactive mapping of networks Visualising network topologies in abstract space The geography of data flows Mapping traceroutes What's the Net 'weather' like today? Mapping cyberspace usage in temporal space Chapter 3: Mapping the Web Information spaces of the Internet The beginning of the Web Mapping individual websites Mapping tools to manage websites Mapping website evolution Mapping paths and traffic through a website 'The view from above': 2D visualisation and navigation of the Web 'The view from within': 3D visualisation and navigation of the Web Chapter 4: Mapping Conversation and Community Mapping email Mapping mailing lists and bulletin boards Mapping Usenet Mapping chat Mapping MUDs Mapping virtual worlds Mapping game space Chapter 5: Imagining Cyberspace Science fiction visions of cyberspace Cinematic visions of cyberspace Artistic imaginings: subversive surfing and warping the Web Imagining the architecture of cyberspace Chapter 6: Final Thoughts Further Reading Index
Martin Dodge is a researcher and part-time Phd student at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA), University College London. He is researching the geography of Cyberspace. He maintains the Atlas of Cyberspaces web site, http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/ Nobody has a better knowledge of the subject. Rob Kitchin is a lecturer in human geography at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. His research interests centre on culture, space and power, geographies of Cyberspace, and geographies of disability.
"The Atlas of Cyberspace explores a remarkable universe of visual representations of the Internet's diversity, structure and content." --Vint Cerf, Chairman, ICANN
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