Felgenhauer / Gäbler Geographies of Digital Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-30294-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Culture, Space and Identity

"Digital culture" reflects the ways in which the ubiquity and increasing use of digital devices and infrastructures is changing the arenas of human experience, creating new cultural realities. Whereas much of the existing literature on digital culture addresses the topic through a sociological, anthropological, or media theoretic lens, this book focuses on its geographic aspects.

The first section, "infrastructures and networked practices" highlights the integration of digital technologies into everyday practices in very different historical and geographical contexts – ranging from local lifeworlds, urban environments, web cartographies up to global geopolitics. The second section on "subjectivities and identities" shows how digital technology use possesses the capacity to alter the subjective, perceptive, and affective engagement with the spatial world. Finally, "politics and inequalities" investigates the social and spatial disparities concerning digital technology and its use.

This book draws attention to the deep interconnectedness of the cultural, digital, and spatial aspects of everyday practices by referring to a broad range of empirical examples taken from tourism, banking, mobility, and health. Scholars in Human Geography, Anthropology, Media and Communication Studies, and History will find this research indispensable reading. It addresses both young and seasoned researchers as well as advanced students in the aforementioned disciplines. The wealth of examples also makes this publication helpful in academic teaching.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Felgenhauer, Tilo

Gäbler, Karsten

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Geographies of digital culture: an introduction TILO FELGENHAUER AND KARSTEN GÄBLER

2 Telegraphy and global space ROLAND WENZLHUEMER

3 Using social media as big data source for research: the example of ambient geospatial information (AGI) in
tourism geography MICHAEL BAUDER

4 Regionalization revisited: mediatization of translocal social practices and the spatial reconfiguration of life in rural-urban Bangladesh HARALD STERLY

5 The everyday reality of a digitalizing world: driving and geocaching MIKE DUGGAN

6 The emerging hegemony of cybernetic class n realities: the non-place of Generation Z PAUL MONTUORO AND MARGARET ROBERTSON

7 From map-reading to geobrowsing: methodological reconsiderations for geomedia PABLO ABEND

8 Digital divides in the 21st century United StatesBARNEY WARF

9 The diffusion of information technologies in the Brazilian banking system and the indebtedness of low-income population FABIO BETIOLI CONTEL

10 Digital health mapping: big data utilization and user involvement in public health surveillance ANNIKA RICHTERICH

Über Autor(innen)

Tilo Felgenhauer is a lecturer at the department of social geography at the University of Jena, Germany.

Karsten Gaebler is a lecturer at the department of social geography at the University of Jena, Germany.