Category - Internet
Topic - Cybermap Websites
Issue - Understanding the digital landscape of cyberspace
Tiptoid -
Have you ever tried to imagine what the Internet, the World Wide Web and Cyberspace look like?
This is a tough one, because these “electronic territories”* are abstract concepts. They have no concrete form. We cannot actually see or touch them.
We were really curious about this, so our Multimedia Productions teacher introduced us to an awesome website, The Atlas of Cyberspaces (personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/index.html).
What we saw at this site was a huge array of cybermaps. Cybermaps have been created to help us picture the “digital landscape”* so we can understand it better.
Trying to explain Cyberspace using maps and graphs is, we think, exciting AND challenging.
Here is what the creators of this website tell us on their home page -
“Cybermaps help us visualize and comprehend the new digital landscapes beyond our computer screen - in the wires of the global communications networks and vast online information resources. The cybermaps, like maps of the real-world, help us navigate the new information landscapes, as well being objects of aesthetic interest. They have been created by 'cyber-explorers' of many different disciplines, and from all corners of the world.”
We hope you will visit this site. Look at the variety of different graphical interpretations offered there, and be amazed. There is something there for everyone, no matter what your interest area is. And like us, we're sure you will appreciate how cool it is to use the imagination!
*personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography/atlas/index.html
Glossary -
cyberspace– the electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place
cybermap– identifying in a hypertext, as a graph construction issue
aesthetic – of or relating to beauty or what is beautiful
interpretation - the act or result of explaining the meaning; understanding according to one's own belief, judgment, or interest
Find Out More - http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html
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Submitted by - Trang Nguyen and Renee Ross
Site Managers - Nana Yeboah and Kelsey Tedder
May 2006