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Over the past decade, a new set of interactive, open, participatory and networked spatial media have become widespread. These include mapping platforms, virtual globes, user-generated spatial databases, geodesign and architectural and planning tools, urban dashboards and citizen reporting geo-systems, augmented reality media, and locative media. Collectively these produce and mediate spatial big data and are re-shaping spatial knowledge, spatial behaviour, and spatial politics.
Understanding Spatial Media brings together leading scholars from around the globe to examine these new spatial media, their attendant technologies, spatial data, and their social, economic and political effects.
The 22 chapters are divided into the following sections:
- Spatial media technologies
- Spatial data and spatial media
- The consequences of spatial media
Understanding Spatial Media is the perfect introduction to this fast emerging phenomena for students and practitioners of geography, urban studies, data science, and media and communications.
List of contents
Understanding spatial media - Rob Kitchin, Tracey P. Lauriault and Matthew W. Wilson
Part 1: Spatial media technologies
GIS - Britta Ricker
Digital Mapping - Jeremy Crampton
Digitally augmented geographies - Mark Graham
Locative and sousveillant media - Jim Thatcher
Social Media - Jessa Lingel
Urban dashboards - Shannon Mattern
Geodesign - Stephen Ervin
Part 2: Spatial data and spatial media
Open spatial data - Tracey P. Lauriault
Geospatial big data - Dan Sui
Indicators, benchmarks and urban informatics - Rob Kitchin, Gavin McArdle & Tracey P. Lauriault
Volunteered Geographic Information and Citizen Science - Muki Haklay
Geo-Semantic Web - Peter Pulsifer and Glenn Brauen
Spatial data analytics - Harvey Miller
Legal rights and spatial media - Teresa Scassa
Part 3: The consequences of spatial media
Spatial knowledge and behaviour - Leighton Evans and Sung-Yueh Perng
Leveraging finance and producing capital - Rob Kitchin
Openness, transparency, participation - Tracey P. Lauriault and Mary Francoli
Producing smart cities - Mike Batty
Surveillance and control - Francisco Klauser and Sarah Widmer
Spatial profiling, sorting and prediction - David Murakami Wood
Geoprivacy - Agnieszka Leszczynski
About the author
Rob Kitchin is a professor and ERC Advanced Investigator in the National Institute of Regional and Spatial Analysis at the National University of Ireland Maynooth, for which he was director between 2002 and 2013.
Tracey P. Lauriault is a Programmable City project postdoctoral researcher focussing on how digital data are generated and processed about cities and their citizens. She is actively engaged in research on open data, big data, indicators, and spatial data infrastructures and she has just become a Silicon Republic top 100 women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.
Matthew W. Wilson is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky and a visiting scholar at the Center for Geographic Analysis at Harvard University. He co-founded and co-directs the New Mappings Collaboratory which studies and facilitates new engagements with geographic representation.
Summary
Leading international scholars are brought together to present readers with an exploration into the full diversity of the field of spatial media including technologies, spatial data, and consequences
