CODA Electronic Transport in Cyberspace

As a coda to this discussion of women’s travel narratives and technologies of motion, I want to offer a very brief and provisional meditation on the kinds of travel narratives that might emerge as women become more involved in traveling along the electronic highway. For, undoubtedly, new kinds of tr...

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Published inMoving Lives p. 203
Main Author Smith, Sidonie
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Minnesota Press 20.06.2001
EditionNED - New edition
Subjects
Air travel
Applied sciences
Charged particles
Communication systems
Communications technology
Computer applications
Computer science
Concept of mind
Consciousness theory
Cyberspace
Digital communication systems
Electrons
Energetic particles
Engineering
Femininity
Gender identity
Gender studies
Human populations
Internet
Masculinity
Metaphysics
Microphysics
Monopsychism
Particle physics
Persons
Philosophy
Philosophy of mind
Physical sciences
Physics
Population studies
REFERENCE, INFORMATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY SUBJECTS
Social sciences
Soul
Technology
Transportation
Travel
Travel modes
Travelers
Virtual reality
Virtual worlds
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Summary:As a coda to this discussion of women’s travel narratives and technologies of motion, I want to offer a very brief and provisional meditation on the kinds of travel narratives that might emerge as women become more involved in traveling along the electronic highway. For, undoubtedly, new kinds of travel narratives will emerge with this new technology of postmodernity. In fact, they already are emerging, as we can see from such narratives as Melanie McGrath’sHard, Soft, and Wet: The Digital Generation Comes of Age(1997). I don’t mean to suggest here that cyberspace travel is the next, most advanced
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