Blogospheres as Spatial Entities
The appearance of blogospheres are corollary to the proliferation of information and communications technologies in the 21st Century - some (like "hyperglobalist" Kenichi Ohmae, 1991) proclaim "the death of distance" this era in development.
Wilson and Corey (2000:1) propose that space remains important in conceptualizing the electronic world.
A geographical approach informs the processes and manifestations of a reified CYBERSPACE, in particular the geography of interactions and "spatial" organization on the internet and its corresponding effects on real space.
Blogospheres may thus be situated within such spatial discourses.
"Sites" (in this instance, blogs) in cyberspace are accorded representational meaning and linked to each other in dense networks, generating cyber-spatially distinct entities given the spatial metaphor “blogospheres”.
Graham (2000:11) however, cautions against an assumption of homogeneity in cyberspatial landscapes.
"There is not one single, unified cyberspace; rather, there are multiple, heterogenous networks" (Graham, 2000: 24) within which technologies inter-relate with humans.
It is here that a geographical approach further informs critical perspectives of such heterogenous and potentially exclusionary spaces, elaborated on in the sections following.
Wilson and Corey (2000:1) propose that space remains important in conceptualizing the electronic world.
A geographical approach informs the processes and manifestations of a reified CYBERSPACE, in particular the geography of interactions and "spatial" organization on the internet and its corresponding effects on real space.
Blogospheres may thus be situated within such spatial discourses.
"Sites" (in this instance, blogs) in cyberspace are accorded representational meaning and linked to each other in dense networks, generating cyber-spatially distinct entities given the spatial metaphor “blogospheres”.
Graham (2000:11) however, cautions against an assumption of homogeneity in cyberspatial landscapes.
"There is not one single, unified cyberspace; rather, there are multiple, heterogenous networks" (Graham, 2000: 24) within which technologies inter-relate with humans.
It is here that a geographical approach further informs critical perspectives of such heterogenous and potentially exclusionary spaces, elaborated on in the sections following.
posted by Happy Little Man at 9:33 PM
1 Comments:
Hey the first cartoon is cute! I think there are clogs (cat blogs) too :) Interesting presentation.
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