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1. Course Objective and Description
"Cyberspace" refers to the information "world" created by the Internet, World Wide Web,
virtual reality and other information technologies. It has a profound impact on our
everyday lives and society. Geographers have examined various aspects of cyberspace
through socio-cultural, network-analytical, cognitive-behavioral and other perspectives.
Drawing upon a wide variety of recent materials (many of which are available on the
Web), this seminar explores whether geographical concepts and analytical methods can be
used to study and enhance our understanding of cyberspatial phenomena and behavior (e.g.
the suitability of conventional cartographical or GIS methods for representing cyberspatial
phenomena). Other important topics include the geography of the digital divide, the
interaction between physical and virtual worlds, and the potential impact of these
interactions on society, economy and people's everyday lives. Students will explore these
issues through reading and discussions as well as class projects.
2. Course Requirements
Students are required to read ALL the required readings before they come to class and to
fully participate in class discussion. Students are encouraged to actively bring additional
articles that are relevant for the discussion in class. All students are required to make a
major presentation in this class. Students may enroll for 3 or 5 credits. To receive 5 credits,
students will complete one of the following in addition to the above requirements: (1) a
research paper, (2) an individual or a group project, or (3) an elaborated research proposal.
For further information, please contact Mei-Po Kwan at 292-9465 or email me at
kwan.8@osu.edu
3. Course Readings
(a) Required reading
MC: Martin Dodge and Robert Kitchin (2001) Mapping Cyberspace. Routledge.
More information about the book is available at the web site:
http://www.mappingcyberspace.com/)
(b) Supplemental readings
Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin (1996) Telecommunications and the City:
Electronic Spaces, Urban Places. New York: Routledge.
Donald Janelle and David Hodge, eds. (2000) Information, Place and Cyberspace:Issues in
Accessibility. Springer-Verlag: Berlin.
Thomas R. Leinbach and Stanley D. Brunn, eds. (2001) Worlds of E-Commerce:
Economic, Geographical, and Social Dimensions. New York: John Wiley.
James O. Wheeler, Yuko Aoyama and Barney Ward, eds. (2000) Cities in the
Telecommunications Age: The Fracturing of Geographies. New York: Routledge.
(c) Web resources
Useful information on the cybergeography web site:
http://www.cybergeography.com/atlas/atlas.html
4. Schedule
Week 1 - Introducing cyberspace (MC: Ch.1)
- Paul Adams (1997) Cyberspace and virtual places. Geographical Review 87(2): 157-171.
- Helen Couclelis. (1996) Editorial: the death of distance. Environment and Planning B:
Planning and Design 23: 387-389.
- Stephen Graham (1998) The end of geography or the explosion of place?
Conceptualizing space, place and information technology. Progress in Human
Geography 22(2): 165-185.
Week 2 - Geographies of the information society (MC: Ch.2)
- Barney Warf (2001) Segueways into cyberspace: multiple geographies of the digital
divide. Environment and Planning B 28(1): 3-19.
- Anthony Townsend (2001) The Internet and the rise of the new network cities, 1969 -
1999. Environment and Planning B 28(1): 39-58.
- Mark Wilson (2001) Location, location, location: the geography of the dot com
problem. Environment and Planning B 28(1): 59-71.
Week 3 - Geographies of cyberspace (MC: Ch.3)
- Paul Adams (1998) Network topologies and virtual place. Annals of the
Association of American Geographers 88(1): 88-106.
- Susan Tanney (1997) Evidence of place in electronic space. December 1997, Human
Interface Technology (HIT) Lab, University of Washington.
- Abrams D, Baecker R and Chignell M (1998) Information archiving with bookmarks:
personal web space construction and organization. In CHI '98 Proceedings.
http://www.acm.org/pubs/citations/proceedings/chi/274644/p41-abrams/
Week 4 - The cartographies of cyberspace 1
- Michael Batty and Harvey Miller (2000) Representing and visualizing physical,
virtual and hybrid information spaces. In Donald Janelle and David Hodge, eds.
Information,Place, and Cyberspace. Ch.8. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
- Luc Girardin (1995) Mapping the virtual geography of the World Wide Web. Fifth
International World Wide Web Conference, Paris, May 6-10. (Web)
- Mei-Po Kwan (2000) Human extensibility and individual hybrid-
accessibility in
space-time: a mutli-scale representation using GIS. In Donald Janelle and David
Hodge, eds., Information, Place, and Cyberspace. Ch.14. Berlin:
Springer- Verlag.
- Paul Adams (2000) Application of a CAD-based accessibility model. In Donald
Janelle and David Hodge, eds. Information, Place, and Cyberspace. Ch.13. Berlin:
Springer-Verlag.
- B Jiang and F. J. Ormeling (1997) Cybermap: the map for cyberspace. The
Cartographic Journal 34(2): 111-116.
Week 5 - The cartographies of cyberspace 2 (MC: Ch.4)
- G. C. Staple (1996) Notes on mapping the net: from tribal space to corporate space.
TeleGeography 1995: Global Telecommunications Traffic Statistics and
Commentary, TeleGeography, Inc., October 1995.
- Martin Dodge and Robert Kitchin. 2000. Exposing the 'second text' of maps of the
Net. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communcation 5(4).
- Terry Harpold (1999) Dark vontinents: a critique of Internet
metageographies. Postmodern Culture 9(2).
Week 6 - Spatial cognition of cyberspace (MC: Ch.5, 9)
- Mei-Po Kwan (2001) Cyberspatial cognition and individual access to information: the
behavioral foundation of cybergeography. Environment and Planning B 28(1): 21-37.
- John Eklund (1995) Cognitive models for structuring hypermedia and implications
for learning from the World Wide Web. The First Australian World Wide Web
Conference.
- Rudolph P. Darken and John L. Sibert. (1996) Wayfinding strategies and behavior in
large virtual world. In CHI'96 Electronic Proceedings.
- Lara D. Catledge and James E. Pitkow. (1995) Characterizing browsing strategies in
the World Wide Web. In Proceedings of the Third International World-Wide Web
Conference,
http://www.igd.fhg.de/www/www95/papers/
Week 7 - Cyber-spatial analysis and modeling of interaction in
cyberspace (MC: Chs.7, 8)
- David Wheeler and Morton O'Kelly (1999) Network topology and city accessibility
of the commercial Internet. Professional Geographer 51(3): 327-339.
- Shane Murnion and R.G. Healey (1998) Modeling distance decay effects in Web server
information flows. Geographical Analysis 30(4): 285-303.
- Shane Murnion (2000) Cyberspatial analysis: appropriate methods and metrics for a
new geography. In Stan Openshaw and R. Abrahart, eds. GeoComputation. The
Netherlands: Balkema Publishers.
- Bernardo Huberman, Peter Pirolli, James Pitkow and Rajan Lukose (1998) Strong
regularities in World Wide Web surfing. Science 280(3): 95-97.
Week 8 - Spatializing cyberspace (MC: Ch.6)
- Sara I. Fabrikant (2000) Spatialized Browsing in large data archives.
Transactions in GIS 4(1): 65-78.
- Andre Skupin (2000). From metaphor to method: cartographic perspectives on
information Visualization, Proceedings, IEEE Symposium on Information
Vizualization (InfoVis) 2000, Oct. 9-10, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Week 9 - Presentations
Week 10 - Presentations
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