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Download or read book Virtual Globalization written by David Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the interrelationship between telecommunications and tourism in shaping the nature of space, place and the urban at the end of the twentieth century. They discuss how these agents are instrumental in the production of homogenous world-spaces, and how these, in turn, presuppose new kinds of political and cultural identity. This work will be of essential interest to scholars and students in the fields of sociology, geography, cultural studies and media studies.