This paper builds on the designation of networked spatial information technologies (both
hardware/software objects and information artifacts) as 'spatial media'to advance media as …

The possibility of digital interactivity requires us to reenvision the map reader as the map
user, and to address the perceptual, cognitive, cultural, and practical considerations that …

Over the past decade, the practices which produce, process, analyse, share and use digital
spatial information have diversified and proliferated. No longer are the handling, storage …

New Lines takes the pulse of a society increasingly drawn to the power of the digital map,
examining the conceptual and technical developments of the field of geographic information …

Numerous exegeses have been written about the epistemologies of volunteered geographic
information (VGI). We contend that VGI is itself a socially constructed epistemology crafted in …

From late afternoon, 17 October 2014, until early on the 20th, 30 researchers met at the
University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories to revisit the spirit of 'critical GIS'in …

This paper is a case study of complications of Big Data. The case study draws from the US
intelligence community, but the issues are applicable on a wide scale to Big Data. There are …

This paper examines one of the historical antecedents of Big Data, the social physics
movement. Its origins are in the scientific revolution of the 17th century in Western Europe …

This paper aims to contribute to the development of tools to support an analysis of Big Data
as manifestations of social processes and human behaviour. Such a task demands both an …

Camping on Twitter, trekking in Google Street View, mountaineering on Snapchat.
Wilderness is dead. Long live Wilderness 2.0. In this paper, the term “Wilderness 2.0” refers …