Image spaces and the geography of Internet screen-space

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• 作者：Aharon Kellerman
• 刊名：GeoJournal
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：August 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：81
• 期：4
• 页码：503-517
• 全文大小：581 KB
• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Geography
  Geography
  Environmental Management
  Hydrogeology
  Ecology
  Methodology of the Social Sciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9893
• 卷排序：81

文摘

This article aims, first, at the exposition of image space and a scalar model differentiating among its four visual classes: virtual space (visual presentations of real space and material artifacts), cyberspace (digital communications and information media), the Internet (digital communications and informational spaces), and Internet screen-space (ISS) (users’ visual interface with the Internet), thus leading from the wider to the specific. This differentiation is followed by discussions of cyberspace and Internet screen-space geography. Cyberspace has been spatially defined as artificial reality, interactivity, and conceptual and metaphorical spaces. As a spatial experience, cyberspace involves co-presence, low cognitive mapping, and egalitarian and global communications. The article aims further at the development of interpretations for ISSs and their uses along dimensions originally developed for real-space geography. These include: real space parameters (ground; distance; places; scale/regions; boundaries; and flows); user spatial parameters (speed; directionality; circularity; distanciation); and user socio-spatial parameters (proximity; networking; time–space compression).KeywordsImage spaceCyberspaceInternetVirtual spaceInternet screen-space