Interview on the Guardian’s Tech Weekly about the Power of Digital Maps
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11 February 2015
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augmented realities, google, google maps, Guardian, hybrid space, Information Geography and Inequality, internet geographies, Internet Geography, power, Representation
This week’s Guardian Tech Weekly podcast covers the topic of Google Maps’ 10 year anniversary. I was interviewed on the programme and asked to speak about why internet geographies matter. I spoke about the need to think about the digital as something that always has a geography, rather than as an alternate ‘space.’ I also stressed that Google Maps doesn’t just represent places, but rather (if we see the digital as an integral part of spatial experiences and augmented spaces) it is also a part of place itself. We therefore need to make sure that we keep asking critical questions about what it means for a monopolistic private firm to be able to opaquely influence such important parts of our lives (something Joe Shaw and I are expanding on this paper).
The show can be accessed and downloaded here.
Note: This post was originally published on the OII's Connectivity, Inclusion, Inequality blog on . It might have been updated since then in its original location. The post gives the views of the author(s), and not necessarily the position of the Oxford Internet Institute.
