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Cyber-Space? Towards an Integrated Approach
Dr. Vassilys Fourkas
vfourkas@estia.arch.auth.gr
Abstract:
This paper serves as a review of the literature and existing
research in the area of spatial, in particular urban, approaches and
geographical studies of cyberspace. Therefore, it develops a theoretical
debate regarding the spatial conception and embodiment of cyberspace. The
central point of the debate is concerned with the provocative question of
the ‘end of geography’. Under this very fundamental question two
interrelated issues are examined: the prospects of ‘urban dissolution’ and
‘virtual community’. The paper then integrates its theoretical framework,
by refuting technological determinism and arguing that technologies are
applied within rather from outside society. Thus, it is argued that
place/space and cyberspace are interrelated and can be seen to influence
and shape each other.
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