Google earth, outreach and activism /

In order to be able to communicate and engage with each other via new communicative spaces such as Google Earth, we need to understand as much as possible about how they work as cultural texts: how and why we make them and how we respond to them. Launched in 2005, Google Earth is a virtual globe, ma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Summerhayes, Catherine (College teacher) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, [2015]
Temas:
Google Earth.
Geographic information systems.
Geographic information systems > Social aspects.
Systèmes d'information géographique.
Systèmes d'information géographique > Aspect social.
geographic information systems.
Technology: general issues.
Media studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Political Advocacy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1
  • An Introduction
  • Chapter 2
  • 'What is Google Earth?'
  • Chapter 3
  • Using Google Earth
  • who, how and why
  • Chapter 4
  • 'Crisis in Darfur': a Google Earth Outreach case study in affect and compassion
  • Chapter 5
  • Human Rights Activism via Remote Sensing
  • an extended case study of activism in 'Crisis in Darfur'
  • Chapter 6
  • In Conclusion: Humanist Trajectories in Google Earth
  • References
  • Index

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