Geographies of Digital Exclusion
Data and Inequality
Seiten
2022
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4018-0 (ISBN)
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4018-0 (ISBN)
Who shapes our digital landscapes, and why are so many people excluded from them?
Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather than alleviate them? This book looks at the key contours of information inequality, and who, what and where gets left out.
Platforms like Google Maps and Wikipedia have become important gateways to understanding the world, and yet they are characterised by significant gaps and biases, often driven by processes of exclusion. As a result, their digital augmentations tend to be refractions rather than reflections: they highlight only some facets of the world at the expense of others.
This doesn't mean that more equitable futures aren't possible. By outlining the mechanisms through which our digital and material worlds intersect, the authors conclude with a roadmap for what alternative digital geographies might look like.
Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather than alleviate them? This book looks at the key contours of information inequality, and who, what and where gets left out.
Platforms like Google Maps and Wikipedia have become important gateways to understanding the world, and yet they are characterised by significant gaps and biases, often driven by processes of exclusion. As a result, their digital augmentations tend to be refractions rather than reflections: they highlight only some facets of the world at the expense of others.
This doesn't mean that more equitable futures aren't possible. By outlining the mechanisms through which our digital and material worlds intersect, the authors conclude with a roadmap for what alternative digital geographies might look like.
Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. His research focuses on information geographies and the difference that changing digital connectivities make at the world's economic margins.
List of Figures
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
1. We All Are Digital Geographers
2. When the Map Becomes the Territory
3. Making Digital Geographies
4. A Geography of Digital Geographies
5. Digital Augmentations of the City
6. Who are the Map-Makers?
7. Information Power and Inequality
8. Towards More Just Digital Geographies
Epilogue
Appendix
Reference tables
Data sources
Methodology for Chapter 5
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 10.01.2022 |
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Reihe/Serie | Radical Geography |
Zusatzinfo | 24 Maps; 15 Graphs; 2 Figures |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 135 x 215 mm |
Gewicht | 220 g |
Themenwelt | Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7453-4018-0 / 0745340180 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7453-4018-0 / 9780745340180 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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