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Author | : Michael Curry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2008-01-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1134792360 |
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By offering an understanding of Geographic Information Systems within the social, economic, legal, political and ethical contexts within which they exist, the author shows that there are substantial limits to their ability to represent the very objects and relationships, people and places, that many believe to be most important. Focusing on the ramifications of GIS usage, Digital Places shows that they are associated with far-reaching changes in the institutions in which they exist, and in the lives of those they touch. In the end they call for a complete rethinking of basic ideas, like privacy and intellectual property and the nature of scientific practice, that have underpinned public life for the last one hundred years.
Author | : Michael Curry |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2008-01-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1134792379 |
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By offering an understanding of Geographic Information Systems within the social, economic, legal, political and ethical contexts within which they exist, the author shows that there are substantial limits to their ability to represent the very objects and relationships, people and places, that many believe to be most important. Focusing on the ramifications of GIS usage, Digital Places shows that they are associated with far-reaching changes in the institutions in which they exist, and in the lives of those they touch. In the end they call for a complete rethinking of basic ideas, like privacy and intellectual property and the nature of scientific practice, that have underpinned public life for the last one hundred years.
Author | : Jorge Arango |
Publisher | : Rosenfeld Media |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2018-06-15 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1933820942 |
Download Living in Information Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Websites and apps are places where critical parts of our lives happen. We shop, bank, learn, gossip, and select our leaders there. But many of these places weren’t intended to support these activities. Instead, they're designed to capture your attention and sell it to the highest bidder. Living in Information draws upon architecture as a way to design information environments that serve our humanity.
Author | : Ronald Gortz |
Publisher | : Ronald Gortz |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2022-07-02 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 6500480163 |
Download My Data, Data Storage Places, and Digital Accounts Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With the creation and development of computing or electronic-digital data processing in the last century, digital transformation has become part of many processes of organizations and people in their various particular conditions. However, with the advancement of this digital transformation to what is now called “cloud computing,” this transformation has not just grown linearly, but has leaped and advanced to much broader dimensions. This new step began to include more actors and activities in society, even reshaping many boundaries of processes and data allocations or domains. Cloud computing has expanded the possibilities of distributed processing worldwide and the means of relationship between the actors of society. However, it also causes a new geographic matrix and places where the processes are executed and data are stored. How can a person locate oneself on this new map of distributed digital processing? What attitudes are necessary for the actors of society to position themselves in this new scenario? What are the central matrices or parameters of risks and legal, civil, or digital rights to a person’s position in an increasingly digital society? The challenge for each person to relate to an increasingly broad and diverse digital network is growing, leading to the need for individuals to be better informed and prepared. This book offers a comprehensive and singular reflection on this crucial topic, primarily from each individual’s perspective concerning one’s data and digital processes.
Author | : Ingvar Tjostheim |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021-12-06 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 3030912728 |
Download The Psychosocial Reality of Digital Travel Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature of the digital travel experience, at a time when more and more people are engaged in online social interaction, games, and other virtual experiences essentially involving online visits to other places. It examines whether these experiences can seem real to the virtual traveller and, if so, under what conditions and on what grounds. The book unpacks philosophical theories relevant to the feeling of being somewhere, emphasising the importance of perception and being-in-the-world. Notions of place are outlined, based on work in tourism studies, human geography, and other applied social fields, with an aim to investigate how and when different experiences of place arise for the traveller and how these relate to telepresence – the sense of being there in another place through digital media. Findings from recent empirical studies of digital travel are presented, including a survey from which the characteristics of “digital travellers” are identified. A review of selected interactive design trends and possibilities leads to the conclusion, which draws these strands together and looks to the future of this topical and expanding field.
Author | : Germaine R. Halegoua |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2020-01-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1479882194 |
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Shows how digital media connects people to their lived environments Every day, millions of people turn to small handheld screens to search for their destinations and to seek recommendations for places to visit. They may share texts or images of themselves and these places en route or after their journey is complete. We don’t consciously reflect on these activities and probably don’t associate these practices with constructing a sense of place. Critics have argued that digital media alienates users from space and place, but this book argues that the exact opposite is true: that we habitually use digital technologies to re-embed ourselves within urban environments. The Digital City advocates for the need to rethink our everyday interactions with digital infrastructures, navigation technologies, and social media as we move through the world. Drawing on five case studies from global and mid-sized cities to illustrate the concept of “re-placeing,” Germaine R. Halegoua shows how different populations employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media platforms, digital navigation, smart cities, and creative placemaking initiatives to turn urban spaces into places with deep meanings and emotional attachments. Through timely narratives of everyday urban life, Halegoua argues that people use digital media to create a unique sense of place within rapidly changing urban environments and that a sense of place is integral to understanding contemporary relationships with digital media.
Author | : Larissa Hjorth |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 521 |
Release | : 2017-01-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317377788 |
Download The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital and networked media have helped to elucidate the dynamic cultural and social dimensions of media practice. The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, and conceptually cutting-edge guide to this emergent and diverse area. Features include: a comprehensive history of computers and digitization in anthropology; exploration of various ethnographic methods in the context of digital tools and network relations; consideration of social networking and communication technologies on a local and global scale; in-depth analyses of different interfaces in ethnography, from mobile technologies to digital archives.
Author | : Kathleen Kellett |
Publisher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2015-09-30 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1772120499 |
Download Cultural Mapping and the Digital Sphere Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Fourteen essays map Canadian literary and cultural products via advances in digital humanities research methodologies.
Author | : Richard Shaw |
Publisher | : Massey University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0995140790 |
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What is a New Zealander? What does it mean to be a citizen of or a resident in this country? How do we understand what makes New Zealand complex, and unique? And what creates a sense of belonging and identity, both here and in the world?Now's a critical time to be thinking about these sorts of things. In a post-Trump, post-Brexit world, easy slogans have taken the place of reasoning and reasonableness, empathy is in retreat, and intolerance is on the march. History tells us that this is never a good mix.In this engaging book, experts and thinkers direct their sharp analysis at these and other important issues. Written for university students, it will appeal to anyone interested in where we have come from and where we are headed. It's a book for active participants in Aotearoa New Zealand and in global society.
Author | : Yuri Takhteyev |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2012-09-21 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 026230466X |
Download Coding Places Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
An examination of software practice in Brazil that reveals both the globalization and the localization of software development. Software development would seem to be a quintessential example of today's Internet-enabled “knowledge work”—a global profession not bound by the constraints of geography. In Coding Places, Yuri Takhteyev looks at the work of software developers who inhabit two contexts: a geographical area—in this case, greater Rio de Janeiro—and a “world of practice,” a global system of activities linked by shared meanings and joint practice. The work of the Brazilian developers, Takhteyev discovers, reveals a paradox of the world of software: it is both diffuse and sharply centralized. The world of software revolves around a handful of places—in particular, the San Francisco Bay area—that exercise substantial control over both the material and cultural elements of software production. Takhteyev shows how in this context Brazilian software developers work to find their place in the world of software and to bring its benefits to their city. Takhteyev's study closely examines Lua, an open source programming language developed in Rio but used in such internationally popular products as World of Warcraft and Angry Birds. He shows that Lua had to be separated from its local origins on the periphery in order to achieve success abroad. The developers, Portuguese speakers, used English in much of their work on Lua. By bringing to light the work that peripheral practitioners must do to give software its seeming universality, Takhteyev offers a revealing perspective on the not-so-flat world of globalization.