Virtual Globalization (eBook, PDF)

Virtual Spaces/Tourist Spaces
Redaktion: Holmes, David

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134561377
• Artikelnr.: 43072437

Autorenporträt

David Holmes

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
A) Urban Space as Cyberspace
1. Spaces in Conflict: Postmodern Urbanism and the Production of Online
Space Mark Nunes, De Kalb College, Atlanta
2. 'Better than (Real) Life': Cyberspace as Urban Space Gordan Fletcher,
Griffith University, Brisbane
3. The Space of Telework. Physical and Virtual Configurations for Remote
Work Nicole Morelli, RMIT University, Melbourne
4. Shocked and Re-wired: Internet Users and New York Subjectives Tizziana
Terranova, University of East London
5. Actual and Virtual Technological Surveillance: The Implosion of Public
and Private Space in Contemporary Los Angeles Andy Wallis King Alfred's
University College
6. Telecommunications and the Future of Cities: Debunking the myths
Stephen Graham, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
B) Tourist Geography as Virtual Reality
7. Monocultures of Globalization David Holmes, Griffith University,
Brisbane
8.Tourism, Virtuality and the Theme Park Michael Ostwald, University of
Newcastle, Australia
9. Architectures of Entertainment Brian Morris, Melbourne University
10. Playing Games with Sydney: Marketing Sydney for the 2000 Olympics
Gordon Waitt, School of Geosciences, University of Wollongong
11. Resort Curtilages: the Creation of Physical and Psychological Tourism
Spaces Peter Spearrit, Monash University and Brian King, VUT University
12. Authentification, commoditization, and the Politics of the Colonial
City Gregory Teal, University of Western Sydney