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Trevor Paglen
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connections between academy, military & intelligence industry
far from urban centers translated into cultural distance
blank spaces -> parts of land missing from maps
secret spaces exist outside the rule of law
true invisibility is power
geography tells us it is impossible to make things invisible
visibility vs. accountability |
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Wendy Chun
"Control & Freedom" |
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events linked by freedom, technology & control
internet sold as freedom & machine of control (shows polarity of society)
you can track activities on the internet
internet circulates reproductions without consent
impossible to track surveillance all of the internet
control society-> inseparable variations & modulations
freedom & liberty have different definitions |
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Mark Monmonier
"How to Lie with Maps" |
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maps must distort reality to be useful -> tells us white lies (bias & generalization)
computer allows middlemen to make maps
computer generalization should make more aware of choices, values, & biases
maps are authored: human beings have perspectives/ limitations
projections make accommodations
accuracy must contend with whose accuracy |
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Bill Wasik
"#riot: self-organized, hyper-networked revolts coming to a city near you" |
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fundamental paradox: technology keeps us out of crowds but also creates crowds
riot online started in London "flash mobs": looting, revolutions in Egypt & Tunisia & OWS |
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Adriana de Souza e Silva
"From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interaces of Hybrid Spaces" |
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hybrid spaces exist when virtual communities migrate to physical space
use of mobile technology to blur between digital & physical space
interfaces are culturally defined (so phone was a phone with a computer, now its a computer with a phone)
mixed reality: no clear primary environment
augmented space: physical space into data space
nomadic concept: mobile phones
Internet is "rich place": single place encompassed all others
society constructs & defines spaces |
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Mei-Po Kwan
"Affecting Geospatial Technologies: Toward a Feminist Politics of Emotion" |
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technologies for collecting, storing, analyzing geographic info
importance of emotion in social life a knowledge production
nonrepresentational thinking
bodies often absent in contemporary geospatial technologies
focuse on feminism->technology can be gendered->viewed disembodied-> put back in map -> talk about gender, race & class |
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Yi-Fu Tuan
"Space & Place" |
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space and place components with perspective of experience
place is security, space is freedom
space: influenced by cultural & physical environment geometric unit, resource of the wealthy & powerful
spaciousness vs. crowding:
-tools enlarge persons space but can limit spaciousness (feel like world is smaller because of airplane)
-people can cause crowing |
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Elizabeth Grosz
"Cyberspace, Virtuality, & the Real" |
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difficult to distinguish between virtual & real
cyberspace tells us about architecture, disembodiment, & embodiment
cyberspace is a "parallel universe"
impossible separation of body & mind, like impossible separation of virtual from reality |
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Jason Farman
"Mapping the Digital Empire: Google Earth & the Process of Postmodern cartography" |
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imperialism & map making intersect
democratization of maps & ability to compare multiple online
mercator map ->superiority of Europe
space & maps can't be objective because created by society
GIS->gendered, seen as objective b/c satellites, militarism uses, flexible nature of maps
social reform from recontextualization of definitions
maps create boundaries rather than representing them |
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Paul Dourish
"where the action is" |
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computer based on philosophy of pre1930s
embodied interaction; ubiquitous computing (computers blend into the environment) |
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Gaston Bachelard
"Poetics of Space" |
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uses example of the house-> "our corner of the world" -> reveals attachment that is native to inhabiting->relatable
imagination augments values of reality
give an exterior destiny to our interior being house gives us proof/illusion of stability
explores cultural ways we think about space
topoanalysis
phenomenology |
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Vincent Mosco
"The digital sublime" |
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distance between people getting smaller because of technology
technology ends geography location
all space is becoming cyberspace because communication is moving there
death of distance = death of war
end of politics-> bring power closer to the people
"horizontal society"->aced on individuals choice of identity |
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