Digital Places: Living with Geographic Information Technologies

ISBN-13: 9780415130141 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 208 str.

Michael Curry;Michael Curry

Opis

Digital Places offers a new understanding of Geographic Information Systems and the ethnical issues surrounding their use. The author argues that these systems, studies by students worldwide, have been misunderstood and their impacts underestimated. By offering an understanding of GIS within a social, economic, legal, political and ethical context the books shows that there are substantially limits to their ability to represent what is important in geographical knowledge and behaviour. The book goes on to show how GIS is associated with far reaching changes. Changes which demand a complete rethinking of basic ideas, like privacy, intellectual property and the nature of scientific practice, that have underpinned public life for the last one hundred years.

Recenzje

'I would recommend this book to anyone ready to read it with a critical view of the subject matter.' - Environment and Planning, vol 26 ,1999

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 The World According to Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 1 Reason and Language in Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 2 On Space in Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 3 Optical Consistency, Technologies of Location, and the Limits of Representation; Part 2 Geographic Information Systems in Practice; Chapter 4 On the Roots of Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 5 The Reshaping of Geographic Practice; Chapter 6 Who Owns Geographic Information?; Chapter 7 The Digital Individual in a Visible World; Part 3 Living with Geographic Information Systems; Chapter 8 Geographic Information Systems and the Problem of Ethical Action; Chapter 9 Beyond PaleoGIS?;

O autorze

Michael R. Curry is an Associate Professor in Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles.