augmented realities and uneven geographies
Symposium on the Dynamics of the Internet and SocietyOxford, 2011
Mark GrahamOxford Internet Institutee: [email protected]: @geoplace
Matthew ZookDepartment of GeographyUniversity of Kentuckye: [email protected]
“We’re trying to build a virtual mirror of the world at all times”
Marissa Mayer, Google’s Vice President of Location ServicesLeWeb Conference, Paris 2010.
Spatial Palimpsests
“The Internet surrounds us like air, saturating our offices and our homes. But it’s not confined to the ether. You can touch it. You can map it. And you can photograph it”
- Andrew Blum 2009
Cores and Peripheries of Information
• Singer’s (1970) international technological dualism between rich and poor countries.
• UNESCO’s ‘New World Information Order’ to describe uneven global flows of information (Mowlana 1997)
• The Internet ‘as a new phase in a long history of the West’s attempt to colonize not only the territory and the body but also the mind of the Third World “other” (Sardar 1996).
“here be dragons”
Psalter World map (1265)
Google News
1) What are the geographies and densities of augmentations of material places?
2) What are the spatial footprints of different languages in the Geoweb?
http://maps-forum-announcements.blogspot.com/2009/06/local-listings-where-do-they-come-from.html
Eastern Canada: English and French
Spain: Spanish (Castilian) and Catalan
Belgium: Flemish and French
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Wallonia_in_Belgium_and_the_European_Union.svg
Belgium: English, Flemish, French
France: French and English
Israel/Palestine: Arabic and Hebrew
Search terms in BelgiumEnglish
French
Flemish
English
Hebrew
Arabic
Bangkok
วั�ด (“temple” in Thai) “temple” in English
“restaurant” in Tel Aviv448 results
a“مطعم” in Tel Aviv22 results
a“מסעדה” in Tel Aviv589 results
Colleen Corradi Brannigan: www.cittainvisibili.com/acquerelli/Valdrada-en.htm
Valdrada: the mirrored city.From Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
thank you
Mark GrahamOxford Internet [email protected]@geoplace
Matthew ZookUniversity of KentuckyDepartment of [email protected]
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