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Internet Spatial Cognition

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In this chapter, the veteran notions of spatial cognition and cognitive maps, developed originally for real space, are examined for the Internet and its two classes of information and communications spaces. Whereas for real space, space and its maps are two completely separate entities, in informational cyberspace they actually converge. Internal and external mapping seem irrelevant for cognitive communications space.

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Kellerman, A. (2016). Internet Spatial Cognition. In: Geographic Interpretations of the Internet. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33804-0_6

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