Geography of Cyberspace
GEO/COM 280X
Course Scheule and Readings
The following is a tentative course schedule. We may choose not to read
some of the items listed below, add different readings or shift things
around. Check the course web site and read your e-mail frequently for
updates. Dodge and Kitchin = Mapping Cyberspace, CCR=Cybercities Reader
(only first page of each selection is given). Note that the CCR readings
are typically very short.
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Assignment |
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Introduction: Where is Cyberspace? | |||
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T Aug 22 |
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R Aug 24 |
How is cyberspace Geographical /Intro to Internet Virtual Field Trip |
Dodge & Kitchin Preface and Chapter 1, CCR Campanella p. 57, Graham p. 138 |
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Historical Geographies of Communication | |||
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T Aug 29 |
Browse sites at www.myspace.com. Bring materials for your homepage. Review VR Trip instructions. Start reading Stephenson Mother Earth Mother board for discussion on Thursday. |
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R Aug 31 |
Neal Stephenson Mother Earth Mother Board |
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T Sept 5 |
Geography of the Telephone/Cell phone Olympics |
CCR Tarr pp 44, Pool p. 47, Carey p. 133, Kopomaa p. 267, Townsend Life in the Real Time City, Bring your Cell Phone to Class , Inital Draft of Homepage due |
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R Sept 7 |
Geography of News and Television VRFT News in NWI |
Brooker-Gross. The changing concept of place…, CCR Streeter p. 53, Morley p. 252 |
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Place, Community, and Cyberspace |
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T Sept. 12 |
Dodge and Kitchin Chapter 3. William Mitchell City of Bits Read: Chapter 1 Pulling Glass and Chapter 2 Electronic Agoras. |
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R Sept. 14 |
Rheingold Introduction, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2 |
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T Sept 19 |
CCR Hampton pp. 256, Webber p. 50 Boden and Molotch p. 101 Analytic Essay of Rheingold Due |
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R Sept 21 |
Community Networks, start Virtual Field Trip: Community Networks |
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T Sept 26 |
Community Networking start Virtual Field Trip Non-Profit Orgs on the web |
Longan Building a Global Sense of Place, CCR Lovink p. 371 |
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R Sept. 28 |
Report on and Discuss Non-profit Orgs VRFT |
Work on Non Profit Orgs VRFT. |
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T Oct 3 |
The Digital Divide |
CCR Benton Found. P.306, Kruger p. 320, Graham p. 324 |
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R Oct. 5 |
Cyberpunk Geography I/ Project Planning |
Read Stephenson "Part The First" (1-229). |
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T Oct 10 |
Midterm Exam |
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Mapping Cyberspace |
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R Oct 12 |
Fall Break No Class |
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T Oct 17 |
The Virtual Region/Project Planning |
CCR Mosco p. 199, Zook p 205, Dodge (in CCR) p. 221 |
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R Oct 19 |
Mapping Cyberspace |
Martin and Dodge Chapters 4, 5, 6 |
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T Oct 24 |
Martin and Dodge Chapters 7,8 |
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R Oct 26 |
Mapping Univ. Home pg. Project |
Martin and Dodge Chapter 9 |
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T Oct 31 |
The Geography of Cyberpolitics Virtual Field Trip/Net Neutrality |
Stewart, Wolf, Shapiro articles from Wired. Witt from Wired News and browse www.factcheck.org |
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Cybercities |
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R Nov. 2 |
The Information City |
Dodge and Kitchin Chapter 2, CCR Castells p. 82, Cauter p. 94, Thrift p. 98 |
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T Nov 7 |
Public Cyberspace and/or final project work day. |
CCR Dewey p. 291, Broeckmann p. 378, Don Mitchell The end of public space? |
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R Nov 9 |
Surveillance and Security and/or final project work day |
CCR Townsend p. 143, Lyon p. 299, Huber & Mills p. 418 |
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T Nov 14 |
Telecommuting & the dematerialization of cities. |
CCR Virilio p. 79, CCR Various authors p. 151-188, Gillespie and Richardson p. 212 |
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R Nov 16 |
Global Cyberspace Virtual Field Trip |
Stepenson In the Kingdom of Mao Bell CCR Skinner p. 218, Madon p. 309, Fernandez-Maldonado p. 314, Bunnell p 348, Coe and Yeung p. 354. |
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Nov 21-28 Thanksgiving Break |
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Virtual Reality, Real Virtuality, and Cyberpunk Geographies |
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T Nov 28 |
Real Virtuality |
CCR Aoyama p. 231 Davis pp. 235, Dewailly p. 407 | |
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R Nov 30 |
Internet Games and Video Games |
A selection from Game Studies, Killers Have More Fun By Amy Jo Kim, CCR Beamish p. 272 |
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T Dec 5 |
Cyberpunk Geography II |
Stephenson "Part the Second," Dodge and Kitchin Chapter 10, CCR Warren p. 395. Optional: Longan and Oakes. Analytic Essay on Stephenson Due |
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R Dec 7 |
Personal Web Final Draft Due | |||
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Final Exam Monday December 11, 10:30a.m. - 12:30 p.m. |
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See web page schedule for links to online readings.
Brooker-Gross, Susan. 1985. The changing concept of place in the news. In Geography, the Media, and Popular Culture, Burgess, Jacquelin and Gold, John R. eds, pp. 63-85. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Kim, Jo Killers Have More Fun. Wired 6.05. Online see web site for link.
Longan, Michael W. 2002. Building a global sense of place: the community networking movement in the United States. Urban Geography, 23: 213-236.
Longan, Michael W. and Tim Oakes. 2002. Geography's conquest of history in The Diamond Age. In Lost in Space: Geographies of Science Fiction, Rob Kitchin and James Kneale eds., 39-56. London: Continuum, 2002.
Martin, Michele. 1991. Communication and social forms: the development of the telephone, 1876-1920.
Mitchell, Don. 1995. The end of public space? People's Park, definitions of the public, and democracy. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85:108-194.
Mitchell, William J. 1995. City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Rheingold, Howard. 1993. The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. Reading, MA:Addison-Wesley.
Schmitz, Joseph, Everett M. Rogers, Ken Phillips, and Donald Paschal. 1995. The Public Electronic Network (PEN) and the homeless in Santa Monica. Journal of Applied Communication Research 23:26-43.
Schuler, Douglas. 1996. New Community Networks: Wired For Change. New York: Addison Wesley.
Shapiro, Samantha. 2004. The Dean machine marches on. Wired 12.09.
Stephenson, Neal. 1996. Mother Earth Mother Board. Wired 4.12.
Stephenson, Neal. In the Kingdom of Mao Bell Wired 2.02.
Stewart, Jill. 2004. The new American idol. Wired 12.09.
Townsend A M. 2000. "Life in the real-time city: mobile telephones and urban metabolism". Journal of Urban Technology. (7)2:85-104.(Requires PDF Viewer) http://urban.blogs.com/research/JUT-LifeRealTime.pdf
Wolf, Gary. 2004. Weapons of mass mobilization. Wired 12.09
Additional Readings. Read if you are interested.
Kavanaugh The Impact of Community Networking on Comunity: a Social Network Analysis Approach .
Kavanaugh, Cohil, Patterson Use and Impact of Community Networking in Blacksburg .
I've only chosen one novel to focus upon this semester, but I also know that some of you are avid readers apart from your coursework. The following novels are related to both cyberspace and geography and are well worth reading. If a subset of the class would like to read these during the semester and talk about them we can do that. They're also fun to read on your own.
Neal Stephenson. Snow
Crash, Cryptnomicon
William Gibson.
Neuromancer, Count Zero, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, All Tomorrow's
Parties, Pattern Recognition
Tad Williams Otherland:
City of Golden Shadow (and 3 sequels)
Kim Stanley Robinson The
Gold Coast
Peter Watts Starfish, Maelstrom,
Bhemouth
Richard K. Morgan Market
Forces, Altered Carbon
Copyright 2006 Michael W. Longan
