From ucfnmad@ucl.ac.uk Wed Jun 3 19:30:05 1998 Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 19:26:20 +0100 (BST) From: martin dodge To: m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk Subject: Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 14 - 3rd June 1998 ========================================================================== == Cyber-Geography Research Update Bulletin No. 14 - 3rd June 1998 == ========================================================================== Welcome to the fourteenth Cyber-Geography research Update Bulletin. This is a regular, free, email bulletin to inform you of changes and new additions made to The Geography of Cyberspace Directory and the Atlas of Cyberspaces on the Cyber-Geography Research web site. The bulletin will distributed about once a month, depending on how much time I have available for my cyberspace exploration. ===================================== The Geography of Cyberspace Directory ===================================== * http://www.cybergeography.org/geography_of_cyberspace.html * * http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/geography_of_cyberspace.html * New for the "Mapping the Internet" section : * Mapping Cyberspace, a research project by Dawn Leeder, University of Plymouth, UK. ( http://business.netcom.co.uk/dawn/project/ ) * WebHopper, real-time Internet traffic mapping experiment by sensorium. ( http://www.sensorium.org/webhopper/index.html ) * AlphaWorld Mapper, an excellent mapping system of Alphaworld (a massive Internet virtual world run by Active Worlds - http://www.activeworlds.com/ ) produced by Greg Roelofs and Pieter van der Meulen of the Advanced Technology Group at the Philips Multimedia Center (PMC) in Palo Alto, California. ( http://awmap.vevo.com/ ) * Cibergeografia, research on the geography of Cyberspace (in Spanish) at the Departamento de Geografia, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. ( http://www.fyl.uva.es/geografia/cibergeo/ciber00.htm ) * Palantir: A Visualization Tool for the World Wide Web, by Nektarios Papadakakis, Evangelos P. Markatos and Athanasios E. Papathanasiou at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Crete. ( http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~markatos/arch-vlsi/html_papers/ INET98_Palantir/index.html ) New for the "Some Useful References" section : * Alstyne M.V. & Brynjolfsson, E., "Electronic Communities: Global Village or Cyberbalkanization?, MIT Sloan School of Management working paper, 1996. ( http://web.mit.edu/marshall/www/papers/CyberBalkans.pdf - pdf format report) * Bruckman A., 1996, "Finding one's own space in cyberspace", Technology Review, January 1996. ( http://www.techreview.com/articles/jan96/Bruckman.html ) * Garton L., Haythornwaite C., & Wellman B., 1997, "Studying Online Social Networks", Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Vol. 3, No. 1, June 1997. ( http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol3/issue1/garton.html ) * Kling R. & Lamb R., 1996, "Bits of Cities: Utopian Visions and Social Power in Placed-Based and Electronic Communities", Working Draft, September 1996, Center for Social Informatics, Indiana University. ( http://www.slis.indiana.edu/~kling/pubs/bitsofcities.html ) * Larson R.R., 1996, "Bibliometrics of the World Wide Web: An Exploratory Analysis of the Intellectual Structure of Cyberspace", American Society for Information Science1996 Annual Meeting Conference, 19-24th October 1996. ( http://sherlock.berkeley.edu/asis96/asis96.html ) New for the "Relevant Organisations" section : * American Society for Information Science. ( http://www.asis.org/ ) New for "Miscellaneous Bits" section : * The Emerging Digital Economy, US Department of Commerce report, May 1998. ( http://www.ecommerce.gov/emerging.htm ) * Information for Internet Service Providers by Randy Benn, including useful pointers to information on Internet infrastructure and maps. ( http://www.clark.net/pub/rbenn/isp.html ) ======================= An Atlas of Cyberspaces ======================= * http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html * * http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/atlas.html * New on the "Geographic" page : * Example screen-shot of Palantir, a WWW traffic visualisation application developed by Nektarios Papadakakis, Evangelos P. Markatos and Athanasios E. Papathanasiou at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Crete. ( http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/~markatos/arch-vlsi/html_papers/ INET98_Palantir/index.html ) * A couple of maps produced by WebHopper, an experimental mapping of Internet traffic in real-time developed by Sensorium. ( http://www.sensorium.org/webhopper/index.html ) New on the "Info Maps" page : * Excellent new maps of AlphaWorld. Greg Roelofs and Pieter van der Meulen of the Advanced Technology Group at the Philips Multimedia Center (PMC) in Palo Alto, California have developed a sophisticated multi-scale mapping system. ( http://awmap.vevo.com/ ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ thanks for your attention martin dodge ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I welcome your comments on the usefulness of the update bulletin and also on my Web pages. Suggestions for new information on the theme of the geography of the Internet, WWW and Cyberspace are also welcome. Send them to m.dodge@ucl.ac.uk. 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