Geographies of Digital Exclusion - Data and Inequality

Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather than alleviate them? This book looks at the key contours of information inequality, and who, what and where gets left out. Platforms like Google Maps and Wikipedia have become important gateways to understanding the world, and yet they are characterized by significant gaps and biases, often driven by processes of exclusion. As a result, their digital augmentations tend to be refractions rather than reflections: they highlight only some facets of the world at the expense of others. This doesn't mean that more equitable futures aren't possible. By outlining the mechanisms through which our digital and material worlds intersect, the authors conclude with a roadmap for what alternative digital geographies might look like.Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digitally dense environments continuing to amplify inequalities rather than alleviate them? This book looks at the key contours of information inequality, and who, what and where gets left out. Platforms like Google Maps and Wikipedia have become important gateways to understanding the world, and yet they are characterised by significant gaps and biases, often driven by processes of exclusion. As a result, their digital augmentations tend to be refractions rather than reflections: they highlight only some facets of the world at the expense of others. This doesn't mean that more equitable futures aren't possible. By outlining the mechanisms through which our digital and material worlds intersect, the authors conclude with a roadmap for what alternative digital geographies might look like.

Info autore

Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford.
Martin Dittus is a digital geographer and data scientist at the Oxford Internet Institute, with a decade of experience in social computing, mass-participation platforms and big data.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Martin Dittus, Martin (Oxford Internet Institute) Dittus, Mark Graham, Mark (Oxford Internet Institute) Graham, Mark (Oxford Internet Institute) Dittus Graham
• Editore: Pluto
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 20.01.2022
• EAN: 9780745340197
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4019-7
• Pagine: 208
• Serie: Radical Geography
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, COMPUTERS / Networking / Local Area Networks (LANs), 21st Century, Digital lifestyle, Social discrimination & inequality, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, For higher / tertiary / university education, Social discrimination and social justice