Mobile Mapping
Space, Cartography and the Digital
Author(s)
Wilmott, Clancy
Language
EnglishAbstract
This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices are bound up in global systems of knowledge and power. Drawing from literature in media studies and geography - and the work of Michel Foucault and Doreen Massey - it examines how geographical and historical material, social, and cultural conditions are embedded in the way in which contemporary (digital) cartographies are read, deployed, and engaged. This is explored through seventeen walking interviews in Hong Kong and Sydney, as potent discourses like cartographic reason continue to transform and weave through the world in ways that haunt mobile mapping and bring old conflicts into new media. In doing so, Mobile Mapping offers an interdisciplinary rethinking about how multiple translations of spatial knowledges between rational digital epistemologies and tacit ways of understanding space and experience might be conceptualized and researched.
Keywords
mobile mapping; mediaISBN
9789462984530Publisher
Amsterdam University PressPublisher website
www.aup.nlPublication date and place
Amsterdam, 2020Imprint
Amsterdam University PressClassification
Media studies
Graphical and digital media applications
Globalization
Digital Lifestyle and online world: consumer and user guides
Government powers