Virtual Geographies explores the possibilities and dangers brought by the revolution in communication technologies, outlining how these technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space.

1 Introduction PART I Embedding the virtual 2 Toward the light ‘within’: optical technologies, spatial metaphors and changing subjectivities 3 The telephone: its social shaping and public negotiation in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century London 4 Consumers or workers?: restructuring telecommunications in Aotearoa/New Zealand 5 Transnationalism, technoscience and difference: the analysis of material-semiotic practices 6 The convergence of virtual and actual in the Global Matrix: artificial life, geo-economics and psychogeography PART II Cyberscapes 7 From city space to cyberspace 8 Geographies of surveillant simulation 9 Rural telematics: The Information Society and rural development 10 Internauts and guerrilleros: the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, Mexico and its extension into cyberspace 11 Gender and the landscapes of computing in an Internet café PART III Thinking and writing the virtual 12 The virtual realities of technology and fiction: reading William Gibson’s cyberspace 13 On boundfulness: the space of hypertext bodies 14 Unthinkable complexity? Cyberspace otherwise 15 Virtual worlds: simulation, suppletion, s(ed)uction and simulacra