Virtual life

A Companion to Social Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 401-416

  Crang, Mike ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brazzaville in Democratic Republic of Congo infrastructures, capacities and scope of possibilities, global to national, to regional, to urban, by age, class and ethnicity; Claims, behind information and communication technologies (ICTs) and (new) media, rendering geography less important; Electronic media and ICTs, changing spatialities of sociality and social life of people; Neotribes and forms of digital life usage of online media, forms of sociality enabled; Scope of communication, Birmingham and Bangalore with video conferencing, still restricted than face to face contacts within cities; Social geometries of digital connectivity; Studies of circuits of mobile phone messaging new means of sharing intimacies; Uneven geography, and uneven social effects compounding existing inequalities; Virtual life, at first glance a social geography of virtual connections, seeming an oxymoron; Virtual worlds, going online early writing on online or electronic "spaces," fetishized, creating new virtual worlds

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864535311     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395211.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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