Martin Dodge
Biographic Data
| ID | 304454 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Dodge |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Dodge |
| SIGNATURE | DODGE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 679 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Rethinking Maps
The authors argue that cartography is profitably conceived as a processual, rather than representational, science. Building on recent analysis concerning the philosophical underpinnings of cartography they question the ontological security of maps, contending that it is productive to rethink cartography as ontogenetic in nature; that is maps emerge through practices and have no secure ontological status. Drawing on the concepts of transduction an…
The (In)Security of Smart Cities: Vulnerabilities, Risks, Mitigation, and Prevention
In this paper we examine the current state of play with regards to the security of smart city initiatives. Smart city technologies are promoted as an effective way to counter and manage uncertainty and urban risks through the effective and efficient delivery of services, yet paradoxically they create new vulnerabilities and threats, including making city infrastructure and services insecure, brittle, and open to extended forms of criminal activit…
Mapping II: News media mapping, new mediated geovisualities, mapping and verticality
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 h…
Touching Space, Placing Touch
Cartography I: Mapping deeply, mapping the past
This report examines current developments in geohumanities and work on so-called ‘deep maps’, as well as considering work building on artistic practice and literary mapping traditions. I discuss developments in the history of cartography and consider the value of old maps in relation to the interests of human geographers and wider notions of popular geography. More engagement with these areas of mapping practice could help bridge the long-standin…
Cartography in the Twentieth Century
The History of Cartography. Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Mark Monmonier; associate editors Peter Collier, Karen Sverud Cook, A. Jon Kimerling and Joel L. Morrison. Chic
‘Placing’ Cyberspace: Geography, Community and Identity
Reflecting on J.B. Harley's Influence and What He Missed in “Deconstructing the Map”
Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization - Volume 50, Number 1, Spring 2015
Maps, Memories and Manchester
Code/space and the nature, production and enrolment of software
In the four or so years since we completed the manuscript of \nCode/Space, it is evermore apparent that the \nonrushing pace of digitisation of economic tran- \nsactions and social interactions means that scope of \nsoftware has increased in most people’s lives, yet the \nability to comprehend the workings of code itself and \naccount for its agency remains limited. Given the \ngrowing automation of activities, the potential \nadvantages at least…
Crowdsourced Cartography: Mapping Experience and Knowledge
This paper considers the emerging phenomenon of crowdsourced cartography in relation to ideas about the organisation of contemporary knowledge production in capitalist societies. Taking a philosophical perspective that views mapping as a processual, creative, productive act, constructed through citational, embodied, and contextual experiences, we examine how we might profitably analyse collaborative crowdsourced projects like OpenStreetMap to bet…
Unfolding mapping practices: A new epistemology for cartography
In recent years there has been a turn within cartographic theory from a representational to a processual understanding of mapping. Maps have been re‐conceptualised as mappings that ceaselessly unfold through contingent, citational, habitual, negotiated, reflexive and playful practices, embedded within relational contexts. In this paper, we explore what this rethinking means for cartographic epistemology, contending that attention needs to be focu…
Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica
The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation. The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a power…
Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths. After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air traffic control system that guides our plane in for a landing, software is shaping our world: it cre…
Cyberspatial Proximity Metrics: Reconceptualizing Distance in the Global Urban System
In this paper we analyze how distances between a sample of a hundred major world cities varies when measured in cyberspace. The project develops a novel spatial statistical model based upon the number of user-generated placemarks indexed by Google Maps. We demonstrate how this metric captures the "invisible" patterns of intercity information flows and helps comprehend the contours of the complex digital network that exists between large urban cen…
RGS/IBG Annual International Conference
2008 RGS/IBG Annual International Conference." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 44(2), pp. 123–124
Satellite imagery and the spectacle of secret spaces
The ‘view from nowhere’? Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery
How Does Software Make Space? Exploring Some Geographical Dimensions of Pervasive Computing and Software Studies
Computers are widely recognised as powerful tools in many aspects of contemporary \nsociety. Significantly their agency is now changing as the social and spatial \ndisposition of computers diffuses further into almost all aspects of everyday life. \nComputers, that increasingly don’t look like computers, are permeating domestic spaces, built into appliances like washing machines for example, and accompany us \nthroughout the day (energising our m…
Software, Objects, and Home Space
Through a series of interrelated developments, software is imbuing everyday objects with capacities that allow them to do additional and new types of work. On the one hand, objects are remade and recast through interconnecting circuits of software that make them machine readable. On the other, objects are gaining calculative capacities and awareness of their environment that allow them to conduct their own work, with only intermittent human overs…
Reclaiming the Map: British Geography and Ambivalent Cartographic Practice
Rethinking maps
In this paper we argue that cartography is profitably conceived as a processual, rather than representational, science. Building on recent analysis concerning the philosophical underpinnings of cartography we question the ontological security of maps, contending that it is productive to rethink cartography as ontogenetic in nature; that is maps emerge through practices and have no secure ontological status. Drawing on the concepts of transduction…
Software and the mundane management of air travel
Over the past thirty years, the practices of everyday life have become increasingly infused with and mediated by software and captured in code. Software is increasingly embedded into objects and systems as a means to enhance and manage usage and to link together disparate and distanciated parts of an infrastructure, enabling new and refined processes. In some cases, such as air transportation, this embedding has become so pervasive and vital that…
Exposing the ‘Second Text’ of Maps of the Net
Maps have long been recognized as important and powerful modes of visual communication. In this paper \nwe examine critically maps which are being produced to represent and promote information and \ncommunication technologies and the use of cyberspace. Drawing on the approach of map deconstruction \nwe attempt to read and expose the 'second text' of maps of the Net. As such, we examine in detail a number of maps that display, with varying degrees…
Rethinking maps
In this paper we argue that cartography is profitably conceived as a processual, rather than representational, science. Building on recent analysis concerning the philosophical underpinnings of cartography we question the ontological security of maps, contending that it is productive to rethink cartography as ontogenetic in nature; that is maps emerge through practices and have no secure ontological status. Drawing on the concepts of transduction…
Code and the Transduction of Space
The effects of software (code) on the spatial formation of everyday life are best understood through a theoretical framework that utilizes the concepts of technicity (the productive power of technology to make things happen) and transduction (the constant making anew of a domain in reiterative and transformative practices). Examples from the lives of three Londoners illustrate that code makes a difference to everyday life because its technicity a…
Codes of Life: Identification Codes and the Machine-Readable World
In this paper we present a detailed examination of identification codes, their embeddedness in everyday life, and how recent trends are qualitatively altering their nature and power. Developing a Foucaultian analysis we argue that identification codes are key components of governmentality and capitalism. They provide a means of representing, collating, sorting, categorising, matching, profiling, regulating, of generating information, knowledge, a…
Unfolding mapping practices: A new epistemology for cartography
In recent years there has been a turn within cartographic theory from a representational to a processual understanding of mapping. Maps have been re‐conceptualised as mappings that ceaselessly unfold through contingent, citational, habitual, negotiated, reflexive and playful practices, embedded within relational contexts. In this paper, we explore what this rethinking means for cartographic epistemology, contending that attention needs to be focu…
Flying through Code/Space: The Real Virtuality of Air Travel
Commercial air travel is a key global industry facilitating the complex daily movements of planes, people, goods, and services across the world. In this paper we analyse contemporary air travel through the conceptualisation of a culture of real virtuality. We contend that air travel now consists of passage through 'code/space'. Such code/space includes travel websites, check-in, security checkpoints, flight decks, air-traffic control, immigration…
Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths. After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air traffic control system that guides our plane in for a landing, software is shaping our world: it cre…
Satellite imagery and the spectacle of secret spaces
The automatic management of drivers and driving spaces
The ‘view from nowhere’? Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery
Software, Objects, and Home Space
Through a series of interrelated developments, software is imbuing everyday objects with capacities that allow them to do additional and new types of work. On the one hand, objects are remade and recast through interconnecting circuits of software that make them machine readable. On the other, objects are gaining calculative capacities and awareness of their environment that allow them to conduct their own work, with only intermittent human overs…
Crowdsourced Cartography: Mapping Experience and Knowledge
This paper considers the emerging phenomenon of crowdsourced cartography in relation to ideas about the organisation of contemporary knowledge production in capitalist societies. Taking a philosophical perspective that views mapping as a processual, creative, productive act, constructed through citational, embodied, and contextual experiences, we examine how we might profitably analyse collaborative crowdsourced projects like OpenStreetMap to bet…
How Does Software Make Space? Exploring Some Geographical Dimensions of Pervasive Computing and Software Studies
Computers are widely recognised as powerful tools in many aspects of contemporary \nsociety. Significantly their agency is now changing as the social and spatial \ndisposition of computers diffuses further into almost all aspects of everyday life. \nComputers, that increasingly don’t look like computers, are permeating domestic spaces, built into appliances like washing machines for example, and accompany us \nthroughout the day (energising our m…
Mapping II: News media mapping, new mediated geovisualities, mapping and verticality
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 h…
Reclaiming the Map: British Geography and Ambivalent Cartographic Practice
Mapping the "Worlds" of the World Wide Web: (Re)Structuring Global Commerce through Hyperlinks
The World Wide Web is barely 10 years old and already spans the globe, comprising more than a billion public pages and 3 million servers. It is a decentralized information space, created and controlled by many different authors, and has much lower barriers to entry than conventional information media. The authors analyze the connections between 180 different Internet "nations" using data on the number of Web pages and hyperlinks gathered from a c…
Cartography I: Mapping deeply, mapping the past
This report examines current developments in geohumanities and work on so-called ‘deep maps’, as well as considering work building on artistic practice and literary mapping traditions. I discuss developments in the history of cartography and consider the value of old maps in relation to the interests of human geographers and wider notions of popular geography. More engagement with these areas of mapping practice could help bridge the long-standin…
Cartography in the Twentieth Century
The History of Cartography. Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Mark Monmonier; associate editors Peter Collier, Karen Sverud Cook, A. Jon Kimerling and Joel L. Morrison. Chic
Exposing the ‘Second Text’ of Maps of the Net
Maps have long been recognized as important and powerful modes of visual communication. In this paper \nwe examine critically maps which are being produced to represent and promote information and \ncommunication technologies and the use of cyberspace. Drawing on the approach of map deconstruction \nwe attempt to read and expose the 'second text' of maps of the Net. As such, we examine in detail a number of maps that display, with varying degrees…
Mapping Cyberspace
From the Publisher: Space is central to our lives. Because of this, much attention is directed at understanding and explaining the geographic world. Cyberspace is a book, which extends this analysis to provide a geographic exploration and critical reading of cyberspace and information and communication technologies. Cyberspace: provides an understanding of what cyberspace looks like and the social interactions that take place there; explores the …
Mapping the "Worlds" of the World Wide Web: (Re)Structuring Global Commerce through Hyperlinks
The World Wide Web is barely 10 years old and already spans the globe, comprising more than a billion public pages and 3 million servers. It is a decentralized information space, created and controlled by many different authors, and has much lower barriers to entry than conventional information media. The authors analyze the connections between 180 different Internet "nations" using data on the number of Web pages and hyperlinks gathered from a c…
Mapping Cyberspace
Flying through Code/Space: The Real Virtuality of Air Travel
Commercial air travel is a key global industry facilitating the complex daily movements of planes, people, goods, and services across the world. In this paper we analyse contemporary air travel through the conceptualisation of a culture of real virtuality. We contend that air travel now consists of passage through 'code/space'. Such code/space includes travel websites, check-in, security checkpoints, flight decks, air-traffic control, immigration…
Code and the Transduction of Space
The effects of software (code) on the spatial formation of everyday life are best understood through a theoretical framework that utilizes the concepts of technicity (the productive power of technology to make things happen) and transduction (the constant making anew of a domain in reiterative and transformative practices). Examples from the lives of three Londoners illustrate that code makes a difference to everyday life because its technicity a…
Codes of Life: Identification Codes and the Machine-Readable World
In this paper we present a detailed examination of identification codes, their embeddedness in everyday life, and how recent trends are qualitatively altering their nature and power. Developing a Foucaultian analysis we argue that identification codes are key components of governmentality and capitalism. They provide a means of representing, collating, sorting, categorising, matching, profiling, regulating, of generating information, knowledge, a…
Software and the mundane management of air travel
Over the past thirty years, the practices of everyday life have become increasingly infused with and mediated by software and captured in code. Software is increasingly embedded into objects and systems as a means to enhance and manage usage and to link together disparate and distanciated parts of an infrastructure, enabling new and refined processes. In some cases, such as air transportation, this embedding has become so pervasive and vital that…
Exposing the ‘Second Text’ of Maps of the Net
Maps have long been recognized as important and powerful modes of visual communication. In this paper \nwe examine critically maps which are being produced to represent and promote information and \ncommunication technologies and the use of cyberspace. Drawing on the approach of map deconstruction \nwe attempt to read and expose the 'second text' of maps of the Net. As such, we examine in detail a number of maps that display, with varying degrees…
The automatic management of drivers and driving spaces
Rethinking maps
In this paper we argue that cartography is profitably conceived as a processual, rather than representational, science. Building on recent analysis concerning the philosophical underpinnings of cartography we question the ontological security of maps, contending that it is productive to rethink cartography as ontogenetic in nature; that is maps emerge through practices and have no secure ontological status. Drawing on the concepts of transduction…
Reclaiming the Map: British Geography and Ambivalent Cartographic Practice
RGS/IBG Annual International Conference
2008 RGS/IBG Annual International Conference." Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 44(2), pp. 123–124
Satellite imagery and the spectacle of secret spaces
The ‘view from nowhere’? Spatial politics and cultural significance of high-resolution satellite imagery
How Does Software Make Space? Exploring Some Geographical Dimensions of Pervasive Computing and Software Studies
Computers are widely recognised as powerful tools in many aspects of contemporary \nsociety. Significantly their agency is now changing as the social and spatial \ndisposition of computers diffuses further into almost all aspects of everyday life. \nComputers, that increasingly don’t look like computers, are permeating domestic spaces, built into appliances like washing machines for example, and accompany us \nthroughout the day (energising our m…
Software, Objects, and Home Space
Through a series of interrelated developments, software is imbuing everyday objects with capacities that allow them to do additional and new types of work. On the one hand, objects are remade and recast through interconnecting circuits of software that make them machine readable. On the other, objects are gaining calculative capacities and awareness of their environment that allow them to conduct their own work, with only intermittent human overs…
Classics in Cartography: Reflections on Influential Articles from Cartographica
The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practice and Cartographic Representation
WINNER OF THE CANTEMIR PRIZE 2012 awarded by the Berendel Foundation. The Map Reader brings together, for the first time, classic and hard-to-find articles on mapping. This book provides a wide-ranging and coherent edited compendium of key scholarly writing about the changing nature of cartography over the last half century. The editorial selection of fifty-four theoretical and thought provoking texts demonstrates how cartography works as a power…
Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life
An analysis of the ways that software creates new spatialities in everyday life, from supermarket checkout lines to airline flight paths. After little more than half a century since its initial development, computer code is extensively and intimately woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. From the digital alarm clock that wakes us to the air traffic control system that guides our plane in for a landing, software is shaping our world: it cre…
Cyberspatial Proximity Metrics: Reconceptualizing Distance in the Global Urban System
In this paper we analyze how distances between a sample of a hundred major world cities varies when measured in cyberspace. The project develops a novel spatial statistical model based upon the number of user-generated placemarks indexed by Google Maps. We demonstrate how this metric captures the "invisible" patterns of intercity information flows and helps comprehend the contours of the complex digital network that exists between large urban cen…
Unfolding mapping practices: A new epistemology for cartography
In recent years there has been a turn within cartographic theory from a representational to a processual understanding of mapping. Maps have been re‐conceptualised as mappings that ceaselessly unfold through contingent, citational, habitual, negotiated, reflexive and playful practices, embedded within relational contexts. In this paper, we explore what this rethinking means for cartographic epistemology, contending that attention needs to be focu…
Code/space and the nature, production and enrolment of software
In the four or so years since we completed the manuscript of \nCode/Space, it is evermore apparent that the \nonrushing pace of digitisation of economic tran- \nsactions and social interactions means that scope of \nsoftware has increased in most people’s lives, yet the \nability to comprehend the workings of code itself and \naccount for its agency remains limited. Given the \ngrowing automation of activities, the potential \nadvantages at least…
Crowdsourced Cartography: Mapping Experience and Knowledge
This paper considers the emerging phenomenon of crowdsourced cartography in relation to ideas about the organisation of contemporary knowledge production in capitalist societies. Taking a philosophical perspective that views mapping as a processual, creative, productive act, constructed through citational, embodied, and contextual experiences, we examine how we might profitably analyse collaborative crowdsourced projects like OpenStreetMap to bet…
Maps, Memories and Manchester
‘Placing’ Cyberspace: Geography, Community and Identity
Computer Science (24 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Geography (14 works) · Geographic Information Systems Studies (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Cartography (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Programming language (6 works)