Virtual Geographies

This theme integrates a number of research specializations and agendas in geography and related disciplines concerned with spatial design, social communication and networking, and digital environments. Included in these cybergeographies are those who use electronic forms of communication including email and listservs, GIS and related forms of cartographic expression, electronic and public scholarly communities, and the learning and research environments associated with the World Wide Web. The fascinating and intriguing worlds associated with cyberspace provide creative opportunities for geographers, architects, librarians, engineers, advertisers and marketers, and social planners. The underlying meanings of distance, place, speed, identity and community are concepts that call for innovative field work, new instructional delivery systems, new meanings of literacy and comprehension, network advocacy and participation observation processes, re-thinking institutional and disciplinary boundaries, and how these information and communication technologies are shaping human environments of work, play, living, social organization, and governance.

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