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Book SynopsisWho shapes our digital landscapes, and why are so many people excluded from them?
Trade Review'Conceptually rich and well-illustrated, this is a valuable analysis of data power at the global scale'
-- Prof. Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University
'An enlightening and accessible introduction to digital geographies and why they are important to our understanding of digital exclusion'
-- Alex Singleton, Professor of Geographic Information Science, University of Liverpool
'Demonstrates how so much digital data is sourced from a very limited range of geographical locations and laboured over in various ways, and what difference this makes to the information about places on platforms like OpenStreetMap, Google Maps and Wikipedia'
-- Gillian Rose, Professor of Human Geography at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
'Systematic, sobering, yet uplifting, this volume makes the convincing case that digital transformation is not the end of geography, nor is it an equaliser for the diverse cultures and peoples across the globe'
-- Jack Linchuan Qiu, Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore
'An important and insightful book. Graham and Dittus eloquently map, measure and critically interrogate digital geographies in a way that forces us to reckon with their power and politics, the injustices they incur, and how we might imagine alternatives.'
-- Professor Lina Dencik, Co-Director of the Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University, UK
'A must read for those deeply concerned about long hidden people and places who have been marginalised in the politics of place-making, including within digital worlds like Wikipedia and Google'
-- Payal Arora, author of the 'Next Billion Users' and Co-Founder of FemLab.Co
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Series Preface
Acknowledgements
1. We All Are Digital Geographers
2. When the Map Becomes the Territory
3. Making Digital Geographies
4. A Geography of Digital Geographies
5. Digital Augmentations of the City
6. Who are the Map-Makers?
7. Information Power and Inequality
8. Towards More Just Digital Geographies
Epilogue
Appendix
Reference tables
Data sources
Methodology for Chapter 5
Bibliography
Index
