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A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies
Over the past decade, digital geographies has emerged as a dynamic area of scholarly enquiry, critically examining how the digital has reshaped the geography of our world. Bringing together authors working at the cutting-edge of the field, and grounding abstract ideas in case studies, this Research Agenda looks at the ways in which technology has altered all aspects of society, culture and the environment.
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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Over the past decade, digital geographies has emerged as a dynamic area of scholarly enquiry, critically examining how the digital has reshaped the geography of our world. Bringing together authors working at the cutting-edge of the field, and grounding abstract ideas in case studies, this Research Agenda looks at the ways in which technology has altered all aspects of society, culture and the environment.
Chapters explore four key themes: the role of technology infrastructures; the ways that winners and losers are created at the digital margins; the power of the digital to create new spaces; and the ways that the digital is changing research methods. Critically outlining the state of play around these topics, each chapter unpacks a case study related to pioneering research, suggesting possible avenues for research that digital geographers might pursue. The Research Agenda concludes with an identification of three priority areas for future work: the intimate nature of our relations with technology; approaches to resisting the power of technology companies; and finally, the need for more interdisciplinary approaches to examining digital geographies.
Rooted in the subject areas of technology, geography, sociology and political science, A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies will be greatly valuable to human and socio-cultural geographers, and digital social scientists with an interest in how the digital affects society and space.
Over the past decade, digital geographies has emerged as a dynamic area of scholarly enquiry, critically examining how the digital has reshaped the geography of our world. Bringing together authors working at the cutting-edge of the field, and grounding abstract ideas in case studies, this Research Agenda looks at the ways in which technology has altered all aspects of society, culture and the environment.
Chapters explore four key themes: the role of technology infrastructures; the ways that winners and losers are created at the digital margins; the power of the digital to create new spaces; and the ways that the digital is changing research methods. Critically outlining the state of play around these topics, each chapter unpacks a case study related to pioneering research, suggesting possible avenues for research that digital geographers might pursue. The Research Agenda concludes with an identification of three priority areas for future work: the intimate nature of our relations with technology; approaches to resisting the power of technology companies; and finally, the need for more interdisciplinary approaches to examining digital geographies.
Rooted in the subject areas of technology, geography, sociology and political science, A Research Agenda for Digital Geographies will be greatly valuable to human and socio-cultural geographers, and digital social scientists with an interest in how the digital affects society and space.
Critical Acclaim
‘Covering a wide range of topics and areas of research in short and effective chapters, Osborne, Jones, and a diverse group of collaborators have assembled a useful guide to the multiple trajectories, current state of knowledge, and future possibilities of digital geographies.’
– Luis F. Alvarez Leon, Dartmouth College, US
‘With its emphasis on digital geographies in action, this volume focuses much needed critical attention on a diverse set of digital technologies and what they mean for different groups in society. Collectively, the chapters provide a fascinating and insightful analysis of current grounded research and future prospects.’
– Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University, Ireland
– Luis F. Alvarez Leon, Dartmouth College, US
‘With its emphasis on digital geographies in action, this volume focuses much needed critical attention on a diverse set of digital technologies and what they mean for different groups in society. Collectively, the chapters provide a fascinating and insightful analysis of current grounded research and future prospects.’
– Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University, Ireland
Contributors
Contributors: Azadeh Akbari, Aireen Grace Andal, Katy Bennett, Carl Bonner-Thompson, Chiara Certomà, Daisy Curtis, Stefano De Sabbata, Marcus Foth, Zoe Gardner, Paolo Giaccaria, Maciej Główczyński, Fabio Iapaolo, Phil Jones, Seerat Kaur, Rosie Knowles, Robert Lundberg, Peta Mitchell, Paulo Morgado, Tess Osborne, Daniel Paiva, Markus Rittenbruch, Adam Searle, Shanti Sumartojo, Jonathon Turnbull, H. Shellae Versey, Rosie Wright
Contents
Contents:
1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Digital
Geographies 1
Tess Osborne and Phil Jones
PART I DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND TECHNOLOGIES
2 Digital geographies and the location economy:
towards a transdisciplinary research agenda 19
Peta Mitchell, Marcus Foth and Markus Rittenbruch
3 Do digital technologies have politics? Imaginaries,
practices and socio-political implications of civic
blockchain 27
Fabio Iapaolo, Chiara Certom. and Paolo Giaccaria
4 Concepts for robot geographies 41
Shanti Sumartojo
5 The radio spectrum: an imperceptible infrastructure? 53
Daisy Curtis
PART II DIGITAL METHODS AND APPROACHES
6 Virtual reality, place and affect 69
Zoe Gardner, Katy Bennett and Stefano De Sabbata
7 Wearable biosensors: an agenda for digital
embodied methods 83
Tess Osborne, Paulo Morgado, Daniel Paiva and
H. Shellae Versey
8 Digital film in therapeutic landscapes 97
Rosie Knowles
9 Doing digital children’s geographies, imperfectly:
methodological reflections on a child-led digital
tour in a slum neighbourhood in the Philippines 111
Aireen Grace Andal
PART III DIGITAL MARGINS
10 Situating data: a critique of universalist
approaches to data 127
Azadeh Akbari
11 The digital geographies of an asylum seeker:
exploring the political potential of digital
self-representation for marginalised populations 133
Seerat Kaur
12 Trusting data: the everyday geographies of gay
men and digital data 147
Carl Bonner-Thompson
13 Digital geographies and ecologies 159
Jonathon Turnbull and Adam Searle
PART IV DIGITAL SPACEMAKING
14 Geographies of the metaverse 177
Phil Jones
15 Disruptive spacemaking and extended reality 187
Rosie Wright
16 Digital placemaking: experiencing places through
mobile media 199
Maciej Gł.wczyński
17 The mundane digital geographies of public space:
a speculative visual approach 211
Robert Lundberg
18 Conclusion: toward a research agenda for digital
geographies 225
Phil Jones and Tess Osborne
Index 231
1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Digital
Geographies 1
Tess Osborne and Phil Jones
PART I DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURES AND TECHNOLOGIES
2 Digital geographies and the location economy:
towards a transdisciplinary research agenda 19
Peta Mitchell, Marcus Foth and Markus Rittenbruch
3 Do digital technologies have politics? Imaginaries,
practices and socio-political implications of civic
blockchain 27
Fabio Iapaolo, Chiara Certom. and Paolo Giaccaria
4 Concepts for robot geographies 41
Shanti Sumartojo
5 The radio spectrum: an imperceptible infrastructure? 53
Daisy Curtis
PART II DIGITAL METHODS AND APPROACHES
6 Virtual reality, place and affect 69
Zoe Gardner, Katy Bennett and Stefano De Sabbata
7 Wearable biosensors: an agenda for digital
embodied methods 83
Tess Osborne, Paulo Morgado, Daniel Paiva and
H. Shellae Versey
8 Digital film in therapeutic landscapes 97
Rosie Knowles
9 Doing digital children’s geographies, imperfectly:
methodological reflections on a child-led digital
tour in a slum neighbourhood in the Philippines 111
Aireen Grace Andal
PART III DIGITAL MARGINS
10 Situating data: a critique of universalist
approaches to data 127
Azadeh Akbari
11 The digital geographies of an asylum seeker:
exploring the political potential of digital
self-representation for marginalised populations 133
Seerat Kaur
12 Trusting data: the everyday geographies of gay
men and digital data 147
Carl Bonner-Thompson
13 Digital geographies and ecologies 159
Jonathon Turnbull and Adam Searle
PART IV DIGITAL SPACEMAKING
14 Geographies of the metaverse 177
Phil Jones
15 Disruptive spacemaking and extended reality 187
Rosie Wright
16 Digital placemaking: experiencing places through
mobile media 199
Maciej Gł.wczyński
17 The mundane digital geographies of public space:
a speculative visual approach 211
Robert Lundberg
18 Conclusion: toward a research agenda for digital
geographies 225
Phil Jones and Tess Osborne
Index 231
