Catalogo
06. Geography and the ICT - Bologna University Press
Collana
DiSCi - Geografia, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà - DiSCi
06. Geography and the ICT
New Technologies & Geographical Research
di Valentina Albanese, Valentina Greco, Matteo Proto
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 G…
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Disciplina
Scienze politiche e sociali
Argomento
Comunicazione e media, Geografia
Formato
170 × 240 mm
Pagine
176
Anno
2018
Confezione
Brossura
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN
9788869233272
ISBN online
9788869235474