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Project

Geographies of Web Information. Search Engines, Maps, and a World of Change.
Code
01T01210
Duration
15 August 2010 → 14 March 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Social sciences
    • Economic geography
    • Human geography
    • Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
    • Urban and regional geography
    • Other social and economic geography
  • Engineering and technology
    • Computer hardware
    • Computer theory
    • Scientific computing
    • Other computer engineering, information technology and mathematical engineering
    • Geomatic engineering
Keywords
cyberspace world city network internet geography digital information
 
Project description
 

This projects seeks to introduce a relatively new approach to identify cities in the current Information Age in what in line with Manuel Castell's call for a "new spatial logic", we argue that the informational (Internet) "flow" characteristics of contemporary intercity connections has to be taken into account when measuring the 'importance' of cities in the current Information Age.