Mapping II

News media mapping, new mediated geovisualities, mapping and verticality

Bibliographic Data

ID8079156
AuthorsMartin Dodge (University of Manchester, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume42
Issue6
Pages949-958
Publication date2017-10-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132517733086
OpenAlexW2762401250
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited46

This report considers the role for cartographic visualization in the news media in relation to issues around its effectiveness and ethics. I consider extended notions of the map as geovisualities, with a focus on work analysing the significance of location-based services, spatial media and playful mapping praxis. The notion of geovisualities also has utility in relation to the challenge to ‘flat’ cartography from the new focus on verticality in human geography. Various elevations grant differential viewpoints, lead to interesting kinds of mapping, driven forward largely by technical and commercial imperatives, but they are also ripe for critical scholarship

Art · Cartography · Data mining · Data science · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Geography · Political science · Praxis · Relation (database · Scholarship · Sociology · Viewpoints · Visual arts · Visualization · Computer Science · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought