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Geographies of digital exclusion : data and inequality /

Graham and Dittus look at the key contours of information inequality, and who, what, and where gets left out when space becomes digital. Platforms like Google Maps and Wikipedia have become important gateways to understanding the world. This book reveals how these platforms are characterised by sign...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Graham, Mark, 1980- (Autor), Dittus, Martin (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Pluto Press, [2021]
Colección:Radical geography.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • We all are digital geographers. The cartographic attributes of the invisible
  • From cosmographies to digital geographies
  • Maps are not the territory
  • When the map becomes the territory. Pre-digital geographies of information
  • Democratising geographies and economies?
  • Making digital geographies. The collection of geospatial data
  • Organising the information
  • A geospatial platform ecology
  • Two complementary approaches
  • A geography of digital geographies. How to 'map' digital maps
  • The world according to Wikipedia
  • A gallery of digital maps
  • A global map?
  • Digital augmentations of the city. How to map Google Maps
  • The city according to Google
  • A geolinguistic hegemony?
  • Who are the map-makers? Who contributes to Wikipedia?
  • Information environments
  • Participation environments
  • Limits to the universal platform?
  • Information power and inequality. Wikipedia's geolinguistic contours
  • Information equity and spatial contestation
  • What are the responsibilities of the map-maker?
  • Towards more just digital geographies. Principles for the digital geographies of the future?
  • What comes next?