Ubiquity of media provides top down and bottom up generated contents,
produced everywhere and at any time. The increasing use of new media
brings texts and images overproduction that puts the emphasis on the
territory. At the same time, more and more accessible forms of narration
– often massive and unverifiable, mostly known as web generated
content – characterize territorialization processes.
In this contemporary communicative context, territory becomes a narrated
subject and assumes new configurations that read just it and balance
its significant with new semiological suggestions. Digital communication
is a tool with a strong impact both in storytelling and territorial representation,
a tool that poses new theoretical and practical questions.
According to post-representational theory, cartography must be understood
as a dependent expression, strongly associated with the context
that produces and exploits it. This perspective attempts to reach a compromise
between those who consider maps as a technical instrument,
related to an applied knowledge and those who understand maps as a
form of power/knowledge, subjected to an ideological structure.
This book aims to collect contributions concerning new technologies and
geographical knowledge in a transdisciplinary perspective.
Valentina Albanese is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Bologna.
Her main research interest is related to narrative territorial identities and
sentiment analysis applied to Geography of Tourism.
Valentina Greco has a PhD in Women and Gender History in Modern and Contemporary
Age. Her research interest include Gender Geography, Women
History and Feminism with a particular focus on the relationship between
bodies/technologies/virtual spaces.
Matteo Proto is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Bologna since
2015. His research contributes to Historical Geography, Political Geography,
Critical Cartography and Water studies.
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