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The Political Mapping of Cyberspace - Cartography, Communication and Power (Paperback)
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The Political Mapping of Cyberspace - Cartography, Communication and Power (Paperback)
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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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