Shifts in Mapping : Maps as a Tool of Knowledge / Christine Schranz.
Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Bielefeld :
transcript Verlag,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Sozial- und Kulturgeographie.
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions) in map-making change conception of a geopolitical space? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (295 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839460412 3839460417 9783837660418 3837660419 |