Geographic Interpretations of the Internet

by Aharon Kellerman

This book introduces the Internet through a systematic geographical interpretation, thus shedding light on the Internet as a spatial entity. The book’s approach is to extend basic concepts developed for terrestrial geography to cyberspace, most notably those relating to space, structure, place, distance, mobility, and presence. It further considers the Internet by its constitution of information space, communications space, and screen space. By using well-known concepts from traditional human geography, this book proposes a combination of terrestrial and virtual geographies, which may in turn help in coping with Internet structures and contents. The book appeals to human and economic geographers, especially those interested in information and Internet geographies. It may also be of special interest and importance to sociologists and media scholars and students dealing with communication technology and the Internet.

136 pages, Paperback

Published May 9, 2016

Reviews

[Andrew]

It’s a fascinating premise for a text, and I would really like a more in-depth exploration, but this seemed a bit obvious at points, and (not Kellerman’s fault) woefully out of date in 2025. All of this describes an internet of addresses (remember those days?) not the world of garden-walled apps we live in today. So I can’t say I can recommend this to anyone in the contemporary era, which is doubly strange considering that this was published in 2016 – the world Kellerman was describing was in its death throes by then.