From: martin dodge
To: m.dodge
Sent: 07/12/01 22:52
Subject: Cyber-Geography Research Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 09, 07th Dec.
2001
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== Cyber-Geography Research Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 09, 07th Dec. 2001
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== < ISSN 1471-3489 >
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Welcome to the Cyber-Geography Research Bulletin. This is a regular,
free,
email bulletin to inform you of changes and new additions made to the
Geography of Cyberspace Directory and the Atlas of Cyberspaces on the
Cyber-Geography Research web site. The bulletin is distributed every
couple of months, depending on how much time I have available for my
cyberspace exploration.
This bulletin is available on the Web at
http://www.cybergeography.org/bulletin-2-09.html
I am happy to acknowledge the support of CORPEX. They are kindly
sponsoring the Cyber-Geography Research web site.
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The Geography of Cyberspace Directory
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* http://www.cybergeography.org/geography_of_cyberspace.html *
* http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html *
New for the "Mapping the Internet" section:
* A couple of telecommunications / Internet maps in National Geographic
magazine, December 2001 (Vol. 200, No. 6), as part of the article "The
Future is Calling", Thomas B. Allen. (One of the maps is available
online.)
( http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0112/feature4/index.html )
* Internet World, a new wall posters from Peacock Maps. The poster
presents the geography of key Internet routes as arcs around 3 globe
views
centred on Europe, North America and the Pacific.
( http://www.peacockmaps.com )
New for the "Visualising Information Spaces" section:
* Cockburn A. & McKenzie B., 2001, "3D or Not 3D? Evaluating the Effect
of
the Third Dimension in a Document Management System". Proceedings of ACM
CHI'2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages
434-441.
( http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~andy/papers/chi01DM.pdf )
* Nooface, a blog covering 'post-PC interfaces'. Includes lots of
stories
on information visualisation and cyberspace mapping.
( http://www.nooface.net )
New for the "Global Diffusion of the Internet" section:
* Paltridge S., 2000, "Local Access Pricing and the International
Digital
Divide", OnTheInternet, October 2000.
( http://www.isoc.org/oti/articles/1000/paltridge.html )
* Pelletiere D. & Rodrigo G.C., 2001, "An Empirical Investigation of the
Digital Divide in the United States", paper presented at the Fifth
International Conference on Technology, Policy and Innovation, 26-29th
June
2001, Netherlands. (Word doc format)
( http://www.delft2001.tudelft.nl/paper%20files/paper1102.doc )
New for the "Statistics" section:
* Information Infrastructure Indicators, 1990-2010, provides a useful
assemblage of national-level statistics on telecommunications and
Internet
for many countries, with projections into the future to 2010. Part of
the
World Bank's infoDev project.
( http://www.infodev.org/projects/375/fin375.htm )
* The Development of Broadband Access in OECD Countries, a report by the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, October 2001.
( http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00020000/M00020255.pdf )
* Multiresolution Analysis of Global Internet Measurements Workshop,
10-14th September 2001, Leiden, Netherlands.
( http://www.renesys.com/projects/leiden2001/ )
New for the "References" section:
* Allen T.B., 2001, "The Future is Calling", National Geographic,
December
2001, Vol. 200, No. 6, pages 76-83.
( http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0112/feature4/index.html )
* Castells M., 2001, Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet,
Business, and Society (Oxford University Press). Includes a useful
chapter
on the geography of the Internet. (
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-924153-8 )
[Buy the book from Amazon.com and support Cyber-Geography Research
( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0199241538/cybergeographyre )]
* Grubesic T.H. & O'Kelly M.E., "Using Points of Presence to Measure
City
Accessibility to the Commercial Internet", The Professional Geographer,
forthcoming. (pdf format, password - grubesic)
( http://whopper.sbs.ohio-state.edu/grads/tgrubesi/POP.pdf )
* Wellman B., 2001, "Computer Networks As Social Networks", Science,
14th
Sept. 2001,Vol. 293, pages 2031-2034.
( http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/science/science.pdf
)
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Atlas of Cyberspaces
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* http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html *
* http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html *
* Italian Language http://www.museoscienza.org/cybergeography *
New for the "Cables and Satellites" page:
* Philadelphia fibre optic cable map.
( http://www.centercityphila.org/it.html )
New for the "MUDs and Virtual Worlds" page:
* AlphaWorld satellite map from August 2001 by Roland Vilett.
( http://www.activeworlds.com/community/maps.asp )
New for the "Historical Maps" page:
* A sketch map of ARPANET topology by Larry Roberts from the late 1960s.
( http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/historical.html )
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Map of the Month
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* http://www.cybergeography.org/maps/ *
* http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/ *
The Map of the Month columns are now being published online in
Mappa.Mundi
Magazine.
* September's column, "Imagining the Inner working of the Internet",
discussed the short anaimated movie Warriors of the Net.
( http://mappa.mundi.net/maps/maps_023/ )
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New Book - Atlas of Cyberspace
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* http://www.atlasofcyberspace.com *
Atlas of Cyberspace, by Martin Dodge & Rob Kitchin
Published by Addison-Wesley, 2001; 288pp
Hardback ISBN 0-201-74575-5; $45.00 / 30.00 Pounds
The Atlas of Cyberspace, a new book by Martin Dodge and Rob Kitchin. A
Slashdot reader said, "I have a feeling it will end up being the
uber-geek
coffee book of choice".
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