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Aitken, Stuart C. – Journal of Geography, 1999
Highlights the social construction of scale on the Internet and how some scale relationships are represented in web-based visual images. Maintains that web sites contain story lines that can act as guides through these scale representations. Shows the need for a "visual grammar" that will enable people to understand the logic behind the Internet.…
Descriptors: Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Social Structure