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Record Nr.

UNISA996359646303316

Autore

Wilmott Clancy

Titolo

Mobile Mapping : Space, Cartography and the Digital / / Clancy Wilmott

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2020

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

90-485-3521-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

MediaMatters

Disciplina

526

Soggetti

Cell phones - Social aspects

Digital mapping - Social aspects

Digital maps - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Mapping beyond the map -- 2. Tools: Epistemologies, methodologies, anarchaeologies -- 3. Other spaces -- 4. Unsettling spaces -- 5. Feeling spaces -- 6. Imagining spaces -- 7. Drawing the line -- 8. Here there be digits -- 9. Other digitalities -- 10. Classifying the digital -- 11. Stabilising the Digital -- 12. Conclusion: Endings and Beginnings -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents the first in-depth discussion of how specific geographical and historical conditions shape the way in which mobile phone maps are read, deployed, and engaged with in daily life. Using a framework of mobile mapping, this concise study offers a radical analysis of the way local spatial and navigational practices are bound to global systems of knowledge and power. It argues that contemporary mobile mapping is imbued with multiple knowledges, pasts, spaces, and experiences, bringing to the fore complicated and tense relationships within cartographic and spatial assemblages. Working between media studies and geography, Clancy Wilmott underscores the transference of spatial knowledge between rational digital realms and tacit ways of understanding space and experience. Structured around a collection of seventeen interviews conducted while walking in and



around Hong Kong and Sydney, Wilmott examines how potent discourses like cartographic reason continue to transform and weave through the world in ways that haunt mobile mapping, often resurrecting old conflicts in new media. In doing so, it offers an interdisciplinary rethinking of the ways in which cartographic media, urban space, and everyday knowledge is conceptualized and researched.