Information Society, Geography of

Taylor Shelton; Matthew Zook

doi:10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.72027-7

Information Society, Geography of

Taylor Shelton, Matthew Zook

Geography

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This article provides an overview of the sociospatial processes associated with the massive growth of information technologies over the past 20 years, as well as the intellectual developments that have sought to describe and analyze these processes. While geographers took on a key role in combating notions of the 'death of distance' in the 1990s, early research on the geography of the information society failed to create a coherent disciplinary approach. Recent work in geography has, however, created a more unified approach to understanding key sociospatial processes in the information society.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences: Second Edition
Pages	90-94
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9780080970875
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.72027-7
State	Published - Mar 26 2015

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Keywords

Big data
Cyberspace
Geoweb
Hybrid space
Information and communication technologies (ICTs)
Internet
Knowledge economy
Post-Fordism
Software
Space of flows
Time-space compression
Virtual space
Volunteered geographic information

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences

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