The Map: More than the Territory

Between netometrics and Webometrics, cybergeography unites the metrics of a space between the Internet and the Web that is sometimes referred to as cyberspace, using a name borrowed from science fiction and William Gibson's novel Neuromancer. The map is more than the territory as it highlights the social relationships and complexities through social networks. This chapter refers to the pioneering work of Jacob Moreno and his famous sociogram which enables sociometry to be depicted through peer relationships between students in particular. Malaurie's anthropological and cartographic work among the Inuit influenced ways of understanding the territory and therefore the daily reality of that people. The development of digital humanities is now challenged by a science of prescription. Information esthetics is enjoying ever greater success and the ability to produce types of visualization is becoming an increasingly recognized skill among specialists in digital humanities.